This vortex sucks air from the frozen inside of the continent and it rushes out over the Ross Sea to the west.
The climatic features of the Lena River basin are determined by its location, with its upper course well inside the continent and its lower course in the Arctic.
Of the world's 17 million displaced Africans, 93.7% remain inside the continent, and just 3.3% have reached Europe, according to UN data supplied privately to the Guardian.
This is probably because the ecosystem of the small lake localized deep inside the continent, at the boundary of two large ecotones (forest and steppe), is highly sensitive to moisture deficit.
The Dublin RegulationFor migrants and refugees, the EU's Dublin Regulation is effectively a bureaucratic wall inside Europe, as it forces people to apply for asylum in the first EU country they enter and prevent them from moving freely inside the continent.
A quarter of a century ago, the figure was only 3. What is more, the pressure toward democratization has grown inside and outside the continent.
The network will showcase strong, sometimes conflicting opinions from inside and outside the continent in collaboration with a dozen independent sites.
But the fact that the organization is so tangled in European affairs is controversial both inside and outside the Continent, and could be a source of discord as the I.M.F. and World Bank hold their spring meetings in Washington.
For example, they say the biblical flood set off huge turmoil inside the Earth that broke apart the continents and pushed them to their current locations, not that the continents have moved over a few billion years.
The oceans, the continents, the climates.
