Canada wildfire smoke makes New York air quality worst in the world - here's how it happened bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

A Baku-Stepanakert meeting was supposed to take place in Bulgaria, but it was sabotaged by Russia, according to what I heard from three well-informed sources in Yerevan, one of them very close to the Armenian government. (I have no independent confirmation of that)

The devastation in Hawaii is catastrophic. Just look at these before and after images 😢 Hawaii’s oldest banyan tree🌳(and one of the oldest in the US) has been burnt through 💔 Tural Ahmedzade Dominic Bailey bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

NEW radar imagery showing Russian airbase in Pskov (Kresty Airbase) on 30 August 18:27 UTC time, after a reported drone attack that damaged Russian Il-76 transport aircrafts. SAR image from Umbra

🚨NEW: PUTIN'S INFLUENCERS: SELLING RUSSIA'S WAR We investigate Russia's Z bloggers to understand how they promote the war while making a profit for themselves. With an OSINT case study of a fake, original interviews, and online undercover work. youtu.be/K_8tYjsFKFw?si…

Three major water companies illegally discharged sewage hundreds of times last year on days when it was not raining, a BBC investigation suggests. Brilliant to see one of the last stories I worked on at BBC News (UK) published. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

A very thorough and impressive investigation by my talented colleagues in our Climate and Data teams: Water firms illegally spilled sewage on dry days - data suggests bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Want to become an open source investigator at our Sudan Witness or Sahel project at Centre for Information Resilience? Apply through the link here: info-res.org/joinourteam

Back on #r4today w/ Katya Adler & Mishal Husain Ahmad - in our final survivor’s story - accuses the Greek coastguard of: * Causing boat to capsize * Hiding video evidence * Pressuring survivors to frame 9 Egyptian passengers Full BBC Radio 4 doc here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The bbcrussian podcast again had Famil Ismailov and me to discuss what Azerbaijan plans to do with Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, what the local leaders have been thinking, and what this means for Armenia and its hawk-turned-dove leader Pashinyan. youtu.be/3uLM3jWUgZI?si…

#30DayMapChallenge Day 3: Polygons Mosaic painting of the US, using Voronoi polygons for all cities with at least 10k population

#30DayMapChallenge Day 3: Polygons, for yday Distances to German cities w populations >250k, in 🐮🍫🟪

As nations at #COP28 wrangle over language on whether to phase out or phase down fossil fuels, our new tool Global Energy Monitor looks at how much coal power has already been retired and where plant retirement commitments currently stand. Check it out! globalenergymonitor.org/projects/globa…

We're #hiring! - #BBCNews are looking for a #data visualisation #designer / reporter to create awesome #dataviz and interactive formats to help our audiences understand key stories. Hybrid working in #Birmingham, collab with Erwan Rivault Apply by 15 Jan careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Birmingham…

NEW: 2023 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record. The second half of the year saw record numbers of new daily highs. We used a Joy Division plot to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940 to show how different 2023 has been

Another day another broken climate record. The past 12 months have seen average temperatures above the 1.5C threshold for the first time. Mark Poynting and Erwan Rivault reporting: bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Huge shout-out to the The Guardian production team for creating this full page on McQuaid and Pringle's #airquality stripes project, with words by me. (Jim McQuaid 🇺🇦 🇪🇺, @KJPringle , Ed Hawkins)

A deep dive into the numbers behind riots and disorder that took place last month by my incredibly talented colleagues Pamela Duncan Carmen Aguilar García Michael Goodier Alex Clark Olivia Lee and, of course, the wisely untwittered Lucy Swan. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s…

Tech millionaires and billionaires poured almost $400m into either side of the US election campaign...more than half that total was from Musk to Trump. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…