NEW: Just weeks ago, the shadow fleet was on the run amid a crackdown on the illicit oil trade. But the Iran conflict has given these ghost vessels a lifeline. Our latest visual story takes a deep dive into their clandestine operations.
👉 as.ft.com/r/40748722-c...
gallery of 9 satellite images from 3 January 2025 to 1 March 2026 showing A23a iceberg becoming smaller and smaller as smaller icebergs break away, and melt ponds appear on the surface.
We’ve tracked A23a iceberg for a while now, but this is our last story about it!
Once the world’s biggest (2x the size of Greater London), it drifted north up to 47ºN where warmer waters and seas broke it into smaller bergs, ending up as the world’s largest pool as melt ponds formed on its surface.
Rivers across Alaska and the wider Arctic are turning bright orange, as increased temperatures cause iron and other metals to leach into waterways, as permafrost thaws and glaciers melt
Read @fteva.bsky.social and my visual story here as.ft.com/r/824504f0-d...
Unfortunately the mag isn't printed in the US, but two of the maps pieces are in the regular weekend paper of the US edition. I can send you a copy though if you're interested, will DM you!
And ofc beautiful designs by @carloapostoli.ft.com !
A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more
Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...
Blood on the streets of El Fasher: satellite images and videos capture new atrocities in Sudan as RSF forces take the city, marking a new chapter in the country’s ruinous civil war.
W/ William Wallis, @janatausch.bsky.social, @digitalcampbell.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/f39c...
For now, we’re using the hundreds of datasets compiled by @ourworldindata.org
They source data from the World Bank, FAO, UN, WHO, and more, all consistently formatted, which makes it easy for us to connect to their API and use the data with just a few filters.
I’ll explain a bit more some of the functionalities and what’s happening behind the scenes here now that the game is live!
If you didn’t play on a previous day, don’t panic! You can access the history to play past games and also see how many tries it took you to succeed on previous days.
addictive qualities guaranteed 📈
📈 Can you guess today’s chartle?
Which country in the world do you think produces the most bananas?
Have a try at chartle.cc
NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry
Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor.
👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
New visual investigation: Inside America's booming immigration detention industry where record levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives & detainees say.
ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention system - 85% run privately.
Record numbers are now being held and detainees, lawyers and relatives have spoken of poor conditions.
🔗 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions
Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
Is Europe prepared for war? https://on.ft.com/4nsBo1V
w @peter.andringa.me Dan Clark @samjoiner.bsky.social @sdbernard.bsky.social
Satellite images of Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, from May 20 and June 13 2025. The recent images shows several damaged and destroyed structures.
Radar satellite imagery from Umbra shows several damaged and destroyed structures at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, following Israeli strikes this morning
More maps and videos of the multiple attacks in our story here: on.ft.com/445zvPR
China is on its way to becoming the world’s first major 'electrostate', with a growing share of its energy coming from electricity and an economy increasingly driven by clean technologies 📈🌏🧵
w/ @janatausch.bsky.social and Ed White
on.ft.com/3EWY5Kd
Join @julianhoffmann.bsky.social and me at Queen Mary's this Wednesday for some talks on data viz and more. I'll talk about visualising climate data in the newsroom amongst other things (and am v excited to hear more about Julian's 3D wizardry)
Register here and hope to see you there! 🗺️ 📈
New: Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy.
Investigation with @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @alisonkilling.bsky.social @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me
An animation of a digital bitcoin rolling into view on an orange rectangular background
NEW: Can Trump make bitcoin useful?
President Trump's embrace of crypto has helped supercharge bitcoin's price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Investors are excited by the prospect of a national bitcoin stockpile, but how such a reserve would work is unclear.
ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...
Thanks both!
NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...
Boxplot chart showing distribution of average daily surface air temperatures compared with pre-industrial average, by year, degrees Celsius. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C
2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C above pre-industrial levels
2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest years on record
while this year is expected to be cooler, partly because of the diminished el niño impact, it will likely still rank among the 3 hottest
on.ft.com/3PwbnPC
Maps of air temperature anomaly foe each year since 1970 to 2024. Little maps are getting from blue to red with the last 10 years all very red as it is getting warmer than normal.
This new record beats last year's previous record, and makes the past 10 years the hottest on record.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A fun one for NYE - I looked at club listings going back a decade in 15 cities to show that the trend for dance events to end earlier is global - with UK cities seeing some of the biggest shifts 📉🪩
Who killed the rave? (Gift link) on.ft.com/3PhQuY7
