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Hundreds dead in Indonesia Tsunami (video)

The tsunami that struck the island of Sulawesi, sweeping away buildings and killing hundreds in the Indonesian capital Palu. More than 800 people have been confirmed dead after tsunami waves.

World Forest Cover Density

Top 20 Countries ranked by Forest area (% of land area) 1. Suriname - 90.20% (147,76 km2) 2. Micronesia - 89.74% (630 km2) 3. Seychelles - 89.45% (407 km2) 4. Tuvalu - 89.12% (23 km2) 5. Palau - 87.15% (400 km2) 6. Gabon - 85.00% (227,517 km2) 7. Mozambique - 78.00% (620 km2) 8. Guyana - 70.26% (151,04 km2) 9. Sweden - 68.95% (280,73 km2) 10. Japan - 67.00% (253,203 km2) 11. Zimbabwe - 66.35% (259,267 km2) 12. Republic of the Congo - 65.70% (224,71 km2) 13. Dominica - 65.00% (488 km2) 14. Bhutan - 64.50% (24,764 km2) 15. Myanmar - 63.64% (430,56 km2) 16. Papua New Guinea - 63.60% (294,37 km2) 17. South Korea - 63.20% (63,346 km2) 18. Estonia - 61% (23,066 km2) 19. Honduras - 60% (67,254 km2) 20. Latvia - 60% (28,807 km2) Top 20 countries by forest area (km2) 1.  Russia - 8,149,300 km2 (49.40%) 2.  Canada - 4,916,438 km2 (49.24%) 3.  Brazil - 4,776,980 km2 (56.10%) 4.  United States - 3,100,950 km2 (33.84%) 5.  China - 2,083,210 km2 (21.83%) 6. 

The Last Ice Age in Europe

www.stb806.de The last glacial period occurred from the period c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago. Erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines, etc., are typical features left behind by glaciers which make it possible to reconstruct the ice coverage during the last Ice Age. Many of today’s countries were entirely covered by thick ice sheets for thousands of years. These countries include Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The big Scandinavian and British ice sheet extended south as far as northern Poland and Germany while also covering almost all of Denmark. At the same time in the eastern regions, the ice spread into the territory of Russia (about 300km west from Moscow) and some northern parts of Belarus. In the west, ice covered almost the entire British Isles, leaving just a relatively small ice-free zone in the south of the United Kingdom. Today, about three-quarters of all the world’s freshwater (14,9 millio