A Washington DC-based think-tank tracking BRI, the Maldives is one of the most at-risk countries where BRI projects are being implemented because of debt.
A full-scale eruption from the Yellowstone supervolcano has the potential to plunge the entire planet in a nuclear winter-like situation, wiping out humanity.
This year's Arctic minimum was reached late last month, between 19 and 23 September. The ice dropped to a minimum of 4.59 million square km over the north pole.
For a brief while, physicists around the world did consider attributing dark matter to black holes, right after gravitational waves were detected in 2015.
Out of the 19 groups of orcas studied, 10 of them were designated as at a "high risk of collapse" over the coming century because of PCB exposure alone.