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See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change

Tom Vaillant

The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero?

Reports of monkey abuse in Thailand have seen coconut products removed from supermarkets in Europe. Find out why from our infographics

Pablo Robles

Monkey helpers or coconut slaves? 

This is how bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart

Danielle Rindler

What does an AR-15 do to a human body?

La nieve ha retrocedido en los últimos 50 años tanto en el Pirineo como en Sierra Nevada, las zonas que acumulan más nieve de toda la península

Adina Renner

Los datos dan la razón a los mayores: cada vez nieva menos en España

Der Fotograf Dominic Nahr berichtet seit einem Jahr immer wieder für die NZZ aus der Ukraine. Dabei traf er auf Menschen, auf deren Gesichtern der Krieg tiefe Spuren hinterlassen hat.

Porträts von Menschen, die im Krieg in der Ukraine ausharren

Why are there so many layoffs in tech right now? The tech industry is readjusting after a pandemic investment boom.

Evelina Judeikytė

Tech’s very bad year, in numbers

Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actua...

Wealth Inequality in America

An analysis of the distribution and impact of Covid-19 fake news in Thailand, the role of fact checkers and possible solutions to address the problem in the future.

Yann Kerblat

Gone Viral: Covid-19 and 'fake news' in Thailand

The year was the high-water mark for colonial expansion—and its geographic legacy is still visible on maps today.

Marina Bräm

How the world looked in 1914, at the peak of colonialism

How data science is woven into the fabric of Stitch Fix.

Stitch Fix Algorithms Tour

Singapore is getting hotter, and that means hotter nights too because even the minimum temperature has seen a long-term trend upwards. Explore our analysis of temperatures over the past 14,610 days.

Connor Rothschild

Sleepless in Singapore? Even nights are getting hotter according to 40-year temperature data

From food to gadgets to cricket, explore how the business empire of one of the world’s richest men touches the everyday lives of millions in India.

Welcome to the Ambaniverse: How one billionaire dominates every aspect of life in India

For those who lost a loved one, the pandemic placed obstacle after obstacle along the path to healing, increasing risks of prolonged grief disorder.

Awash in grief

The perfumes are equated with works of art, "put on" in the light, and enjoyed alone

The great history of the art of perfumery

We put data on the walls in Dandora so our community could read it too.

Life Under Curfew — Social Justice Centres Working Group

Access to leisure has always been gendered. How are women championing spaces of recreation for themselves across South and Southeast Asian cities?

Pei Ying Loh

A Woman's World

An essential visual guide to the trends that will shape the lives of Kenya’s most important generation.

Gabrielle Merite

Kenyan Youth Trends

In Paris, experts are modeling ways to revive the burned cathedral’s centuries-old acoustics. A Times interactive shows how space can affect what we hear.

Marco Hernandez

The Quest to Restore Notre Dame’s Glorious Sound

Visualizing income and wealth inequality in the U.S. in real time.

Realtime Inequality

Hongkongers have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the extradition bill in huge numbers. The protesters and the government are in no mood to compromise and police have found themselves thrust into the front line

Hong Kong: 100 days of protests

A CBC News data analysis shows that immigrants and people with low incomes are most likely to live in the hottest urban areas.

Here's who lives in your city's worst heat islands

Using career stats to prove the best/worst NBA draft picks, ever

A dynamic big-screen presentation that helped Bill Gates' deliver a speech designed to change the world at the Goalkeepers 2018 event.

Goalkeepers: Bill Gates' speeches - Beyond Words Studio

És megremeg a föld

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now, one year later, Grid looks back on how the conflict spread.

Ukraine, One Year at War: An interactive timeline of the conflict

Why a starring film role matters for particular breeds of dog

What makes certain dogs popular in certain countries

Researching patterns in the repression of the freedom of expression in Iran

Visualizing Censorship in Iran

An interactive story of family, tradition and a cabin in the woods.

NFB The Last Hunt

A view of two imaginary nations created by slicing the country along the sharp divide between Republican and Democratic Americas.

The Two Americas of 2016

Seven simple demands to hold fossil fuel companies accountable.

Matthew Conlen

The Corporations Behind Climate Change

Dashboard of the Present Future for the World Data Visualization Prize. Created by Lindsey Poulter

Dashboard of the Present Future

United States gun and firearm killing data visualization by Periscopic

United States gun death data visualization

In recent years, there have been 935 internet shutdowns worldwide, and censorship has worsened. Here’s how authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent, using deep packet inspection, DDoS and total blackouts.

In the dark: the internet sparked a revolution, then it was turned off

An immersive, interactive web-experience. From political detainee to refugee and activist, a story of survival and revolution through the Syrian uprising.

Zendetta - A Story from Syria

How China’s Forbidden City became the Palace Museum: one of humanity’s greatest legacies

The history of the Forbidden City

“Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek,” by New York Times reporter John Branch, tells the harrowing story of skiers caught in an avalanche.

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

How search and rescue teams comb debris for survivors after devastating earthquakes

Searching for life in the rubble

Extinction crisis puts 1 million species on the verge of disappearing

On the brink

A data visualization of Hong Kong women artists.

Hong Kong Artists, Women

Farmed seafood has a dirty secret. It is fed using billions of wild-caught fish trawled from the oceans. Find out what goes on under the surface

Fishing the feed

Cantonese opera is still one of Hong Kong's favourite art forms

Cantonese Opera: history, performance, theatre and costume design

Half the world could soon face dangerous heat. We measured the daily toll it is already taking.

Extreme Heat Will Change Us

A failure to regulate low Earth orbit could have disastrous consequences

How space debris threatens modern life

Female characters appear in superhero comics less often than males — but when they are included, how are they depicted?

Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters

A story by Club Bruges about club love and respect.

The Bear and his Scarf | Club Bruges

Detailed supply chain mapping of two weapons that changed the war reveals a complex web of companies under significant strain as the industry returns to a wartime footing

How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defence industry

This map shows a slice of our Universe. It was created from astronomical data taken night after night over a period of 15 years using a telescope in New Mexico, USA.

Frances To

The map of the observable universe

Our country has been attacked by Russian Federation, it is destroying our lives, it wants to trample on freedom. Ukraine is our home, we will defend it to the end, our voices will unite and no one will force us to be silent and give up freedom.

Glory To Ukraine

Fishing nets are killing our ocean. And if the ocean dies, we die. Take action now on www.no-fishing.net and help free the ocean from fishing nets #NoFishingNet

Sea Shepherd No Fishing

New technologies can now reach places too risky for humans and search for the last surviving specimens before it’s too late

How drones are helping scientists locate endangered plants

An interactive and highly illustrated story that investigates the historic rubber industry in Malaya, and its discriminative practices.

Rubber, Race and Colonial Exploitation

The most definitive account yet at what went wrong, why it went wrong, and how Liverpool supporters were instantly blamed on the night

How the Champions League final descended into chaos – visual investigation

Most of us hunch over our smartphone for at least two hours a day. This can effectively increase the weight of your head by up to 27kg, damage your posture, and if you text while walking, expose you to all kinds of accidents

Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome

Forget about carbon emissions and carbon neutrality – if permafrost continues to melt at current rates, it could be game over for humanity

What is permafrost and why might it be the climate change time bomb?

Imagine your hometown never changed. That no one ever grew old or moved on. Part book, part film, part family photo album, Welcome to Pine Point unearths a place frozen in time and discovers what happens when an entire community is erased from the map.

NFB - Welcome to Pine Point

Wenn die Pharmabranche ein Universum wäre, sähe es so aus.

Das Pharma-Universum | The Pharma-Universe

Using laser scanners and drones, a team of volunteers travelled across Ukraine documenting the destruction of cultural sites. This is the data they collected.

These 3D models take you inside the ruins of Ukraine's cultural treasures

This season marks the 50th anniversary Title IX, so Google Trends took a look at how search interest in the WNBA has grown and who has paved the way.

The Trailblazers, The Risk Takers, The Ceiling Breakers, The Firsts

Since 1985, the International Center of Photography has recognized outstanding achievements in photography with its prestigious Infinity Awards.

ICP Infinity Awards

Western science fiction often depicts our collective culture in restrictive, erroneous ways. How about we let Asian sci-fi speak for itself?

What’s the state of Southeast Asian sci-fi?

First chapter of “The China Ship” the story of the first globalization that connected Europe, the Americas and China through trade

The China Ship

Florida’s Volusia County is racing to treat addiction while battling a wave of overdoses caused by tainted street drugs

Ilia Blinderman

Hidden Fentanyl Is Driving a Fatal New Phase in US Opioid Epidemic

The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi

What literature do we study from the 1990s?

Project Multatuli has created an interactive data story to help the public peel back the many layers of the coal oligarchy—the small group of men who control the dirty energy source—in Indonesia. The story is presented in the form of a game, in which players must answer questions about the businesses and networks of the [...]Read More...

Public

Exposing Indonesia's Coal Oligarchs

A healthy life for all people up into old age is a sign for high level of well-being in a country

Healthy throughout life

Extensive polling commissioned by the Tony Blair Institute that reveals the pragmatism, priorities and changing values of the people of the New Middle East

The Changing Face of the New Middle East

Pennsylvania abortion clinics are accommodating an influx of thousands of out-of-state patients denied abortion at home

Jasen Lo

The impact of other states’ abortion bans ripples across Pennsylvania

Data shows how the construction of dams impacts the river’s ecosystem and those those living on its banks

How dams starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment

Thirty years after a death squad massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the infamous Arkan’s Tigers have stood trial for their alleged part in those crimes.

The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone

Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.

Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL

How are countries going digital? The OECD’s Toolkit helps measure, compare and find policy solutions.

OECD Going Digital Toolkit

A visualization of the rainbow flag to portray to what extent different dimensions of queer life are disregarded by state regulations.

Flags of Inequality

Understanding the Endurance of Opioids &
Combatting the Modern American Epidemic

In Crisis

Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon

The Threatened Tribe

Visualizing the 2021 Formula One Racing Season

Thunder Roads

An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.

The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature

Die Auslastung ihrer Windparks hüten die Betreiber wie ein Staatsgeheimnis. Die NZZ hat sie nun selbst berechnet. Die Ergebnisse sind ernüchternd.

Windkraft in Deutschland: So schlecht sind Windräder ausgelastet

My Little Storybook 🪶 is a Lusion Monthly Experiment. It is a story of a bird family crossing the river.

My Little Storybook

The world population just hit a record. Here's where you fit in and how the world's demographics are expected to change. 

You’re one in 8 billion

The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble and the consequences could be dire.

Insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate

Non-commercial project (part of the GreatArmenia personal project) about Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide — The Armenian Genocide

Uncover a city with over 200 pyramids. This is Meroë, the ancient capital of the Kushite Kingdom, in Sudan’s Nile Valley.

Pyramids of Meroë

A visual explainer on why we need a tracing app, how it would work and the risks it entails

Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing

Le storie, i numeri, le vittime: il bilancio di EMERGENCY, 20 anni dopo.

Afghanistan20 | Vent'anni di guerra

How informal street vendors define the sonic landscape of Mexico’s capital

The Sounds of CDMX

Black Panther marked a turning point for diversity in the MCU. For 10 years prior to that film, every movie in the MCU was led by a white man. After Black Panther, 11 out of 16 projects were led by a person of color and/or a woman.

Black Panther: It took a decade for MCU to address diversity

Visualization of my Book Collection using Sunlight

Kirti Vardhan Rathore - Lumos Maxima

A link between history and innovation, the Longines Spirit Zulu Time, an exceptional timepiece to be used by all modern pioneers 

Longines Spirit Zulu Time

Cyber disruptions. Military encounters. Geopolitical instability. Economic sanctions. Even the risk of nuclear annihilation. How did we get here? Today the increasingly fraught U.S.-Russia relationship has entered a dangerous era of confrontation. Tapping a distinguished roster of policymakers, experts, and scholars, U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability presents a deep dive into the historic complexities and current conundrums of one of the world’s most important bilateral relationships.Philanthropic funding provided byCarnegie Corporation of New York

U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability

These are the untold stories of the Cronulla riots. Go beyond the media headlines with SBS's interactive experience: watch the documentary, explore the themes and delve deeper into the riots.

Cronulla Riots: The Day that Shocked the Nation

An experiment to trace the emotional waves of a pandemic. A story using data. Told through tweets. Assembled by AI. Explore, and discover the story that matters to you.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

See how the press would cover you if you went missing. Calculate your coverage, and join the fight for equality.