Another month, another record
The 12th consecutive of its kind, in fact
May 2024 was the warmest on record
The circled dots in the beeswarm chart are the most recent 12 months
Read our story with
@KenzaBryan
here
First byline as graphics editor
@FT
!
For this week's climate graphic we look at atmospheric rivers
Words by
@Aime_Williams
,
#blender
magic by
@sdbernard
and animation + maps by me
Ocean temperatures climbed to new highs in March 2023. Every day since has set a new daily record: more than 365 consecutive highs
We used a Spilhaus map projection to focus on the world’s oceans, by showing them as one connected body
w
@Emiliyadotcom
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 24: Black & White - Vessel density in the Black Sea shows the drop in shipping activity around Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
NEW: Over 2,700 incidents of oil pollution by ships identified over the past three years
@alexandraheal
and I worked with
@SkyTruth
for this week’s climate graphic of the week
NEW: Antarctica's melt season is nearing its end and in some parts of the continent it was more than a month longer than usual
words by
@AttractaMooney
, charts by
@AditiHBhandari
and maps by me
The global average temperature of the past 12 months breached 1.5C for the first time for any year-long period, according to new
@CopernicusECMWF
data.
Climate graphic this week w
@AttractaMooney
+
@sdbernard
Our latest: BBC Russian and Mediazona have counted + verified the deaths of 25,000 Russian soldiers.
What counting the dead tells us about how the war is changing:
w
@oivshina
@becky_dale
Joe Lee
@alli_shultes92
@PrinaShah2
Jack Boreham, Al Ivanov + more
We've updated our emissions target tracker. Use our interactive charts to find out how individual countries are doing w
@becky_dale
@EsmeStallard
#COP28
Amid drought and El Niño, northern regions of South America are off to a strong start to their wildfire season.
This week’s climate graphic w/
@sdbernard
@AttractaMooney
+
@joeparkdan
Come make some cool data visualizations with me at BBC News!
Dataviz designer/reporter role opened today (in Birmingham), happy to answer any questions
NEW: We've tracked the world's largest iceberg, A23a, and it's on the move again!
It travelled along the seafloor ridge from the Filchner Ice Shelf to past South Orkney islands, pushed by currents, and is now in deeper waters en route to South Georgia.
The slicks were identified using Sentinel-1 satellite data and for some,
@SkyTruth
were able to match the ship that likely dumped the oil
Full story here
Indonesian waters had more slicks than the next four countries with the highest counts combined, hosting some of the busiest shipping lanes
Each slick in the chart is the actual shape of the spill at the moment of capture by satellite
My latest report on
#china
with graphics designed by
@janatausch
China just launched three astronauts to its new Tiangong space station. Why does China keep sending humans? What's China's ambition? Who makes rules in space? Click here to read more