The orbiting infrared observatory, designed to be about 100 times more sensitive than its Hubble predecessor, is due to blast off from a site in French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast. #Reuters #ReutersGraphics #NASA

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“The concern at the moment is how little information we have and that’s scary,” said Janine Krippner, a New Zealand-based volcanologist with the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

The sanctions have sparked flight cancellations and costly detours, denting the industry's pandemic recovery and dealing a blow to the mainly Ireland-based leasing industry which was ordered to stop doing business with Russian airlines. ✈️ graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS…

Russia is becoming a pariah in the skies, with a number of countries closing their airspace to Russian aircraft. Bloomberg, Reuters, Financial Times and The Economist offer different looks at airspace bans, flight route changes & empty Ukraine skies. gijn.org/2022/03/11/dat…

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Maps and satellite images show the extent of unprecedented floods in Pakistan. Over 1,500 people have been killed and large swathes of the country are underwater. tmsnrt.rs/3UeCXlk

Hurricane Ian hit Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday with howling winds, torrential rains and a surge of ocean surf that made it one of the most powerful U.S. storms in recent years. graphics.reuters.com/STORM-IAN/gkvl…

The Itaewon district in South Korea’s capital is known as a place of fun. But its narrow, steep streets and constrained access points proved a lethal mix for Halloween partygoers who became trapped in a crowd crush that left more than 150 people dead. graphics.reuters.com/SOUTHKOREA-STA…

As human activities rapidly transform the planet, the global insect population is declining at an unprecedented rate of up to 2% per year. Reuters Graphics Beautiful illustrations by CatherineTai reut.rs/3VGTTRM

Link: tmsnrt.rs/3hfAto5 Nearly 800 plant species have disappeared since the 18th century, while thousands more are considered functionally extinct. #environment #disappearing #conservation Reuters Graphics With beautiful illustrations by Daisy Chung (鍾彥儒）

I collaborated with the talented Reuters Graphics team to produce a piece showing the species we lost and the ones that we are close to losing. I hope it will inspire people to do more to conserve our planet and its various inhabitants 🐢🐍🐘🦏🦜 🔗reuters.com/graphics/GLOBA…

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An in-depth look at how the ground moved after the massive #Turkey #earthquake. The 300km long rupture cut through towns and villages that sat along the fault line. reuters.com/graphics/TURKE…

We're honoured to be recognised with 71 awards from the Society for News Design Best of News Design competition! #SND44 World's Best Designed organisation 🏆 Simon Scarr announced World's Best Designer🏆 A Gold medal 🥇 4 Silvers 🥈 13 Bronze🥉 49 Awards of Excellence🏅 Below are some highlights:

A Gold 🥇 medal was awarded to our series on the future of biodiversity. Congratulations Daisy Chung (鍾彥儒） Julia Han Janicki 🌻 Sudev Kiyada Gloria Dickie Anurag Rao Jitesh Chowdhury Katy Daigle Simon Scarr reuters.com/graphics/GLOBA…

This August, record-breaking rainfall has drenched the streets of China’s northern Hebei province, triggering some of the worst floods in history and displacing over a million people from their homes reut.rs/3DZy2Ok

You know that I love to share the preliminary sketches with you. These are from the latest work we published on the Houthis attacks in the Red Sea. With Simon Scarr Han Huang Jitesh Chowdhury Reuters Graphics reuters.com/graphics/ISRAE…

More than one million of Gaza’s inhabitants face the most extreme form of malnutrition – classified by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification as ‘Catastrophe or Famine’ reut.rs/3xxQWw5

Visual explainer on the human body’s battle 🤒 with mpox, and how the virus 🦠 spreads and mutates. In recent years, a new strain of the virus spread globally 🌍. bit.ly/4eHS9AB bit.ly/4eHS9AB