This week's massive heat wave would have been one in a thousand just a few decades ago. But the future is likely to bring many more summers like it:
The New York Times: Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S. Der Spiegel: Willkommen im Zeitalter der Hitze Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Financial Times: The British still think heatwaves are fun — not for much longer Bloomberg: London Is Set to Bake in 40-Degree Heat. Get Used to It Financial Times: Climate graphic of the week: how sleep fares during climate change CBC News: Cooling Canopy Der Spiegel: Wo herrscht schon Alarmstufe Rot? Hot, dry summers mean wildfires . We saw four different versions of this line chart (from The Financial Times, Szabad Európa, De Tijd, and The Economist) showing just how much worse than usual this fire season in Europe has been:
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Financial Times: ‘Climate change shoved in our face’ — Europe wrestles with heatwave and forest fires Szabad Európa: Óriási erdőtüzeket hoz már a mostani extrém meleg idő is De Tijd: Hittestolp houdt extreme temperaturen vast boven West-Europa The Economist: How bad are Europe’s wildfires? National Geographic: The key to protecting Yosemite’s sequoias from wildfires? More fire If the climate crisis weren't a good enough reason for Europe to change its energy mix — there are also the risks of relying on imported gas:
National Geographic: India is reinventing its energy strategy—and the climate may depend on it Le Monde: Réduire sa consommation d’énergie : pourquoi et comment les individus et les entreprises peuvent-ils agir ? Süddeutsche Zeitung: Was das Neun-Euro-Ticket bringt De Tijd: Europese gasnachtmerrie nadert Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Wie Wasserkraftreserven die Schweiz vor dem Stromausfall bewahren sollen Even food exports are being used as a tool of war by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine :
El País: Barcos fantasma rusos para robar cereal en Ucrania Süddeutsche Zeitung: Was Putins Truppen in Schwierigkeiten bringt These charts looked back at lives saved and lost to COVID this year :
The Economist: Which covid-19 vaccine saved the most lives in 2021? Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Herr Stöhr, wer ist besser durch die Pandemie gekommen: Deutschland oder die Schweiz? And air travel is still struggling to pull off its pandemic-era comeback:
Keyeun Lee: "#TidyTuesday Week 28: European flights. Visualising flight data with multi-series line chart using emoji," July 14 (Tweet The Wall Street Journal: Air Travel Is Broken. Here’s Why Financial Times: US tourists drive rebound in foreign visitors to London’s top attractions In elections, a leadership contest in Britain and an ominous midterm outlook in the U.S. :
The Economist: Who will be Britain’s next prime minister? Financial Times: Tory leadership election tracker: Four candidates remain in race to be PM FiveThirtyEight: What's Behind Biden's Record-Low Approval Rating? FiveThirtyEight: At Least 120 Republican Nominees Deny The Results Of The 2020 Election This week brought several beautiful visualizations on science and nature :
SBS News: 녹조라떼가 우리 식탁에 올라올 수 있다고? Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. NBC News: How pictures from the Webb telescope compare to Hubble’s Gazeta Wyborcza: Klimatyczna prognoza dla Polski. Gdzie czekają nas huragany, gdzie powodzie, a gdzie nieznośny upał? National Geographic: Dazzling photos show horseshoe crabs thriving in protected area As well as these on race and racism in the United States :
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Are the police capable of changing?’: Data on racial profiling in California shows the problem is only getting worse The Wall Street Journal: Chicago vs. Dallas: Why the North Lags Behind the South and West in Racial Integration Finally, we saw other maps and charts of housing , trains , population , left-footedness , and detention without trial :
The New York Times: The Housing Shortage Isn’t Just a Coastal Crisis Anymore Der Spiegel: Wenn der ICE ausgebucht ist The Economist: The pecking order of the world’s population is soon to change Serac: Tirer des deux pieds est-il plus efficace ? Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The New York Times: Egypt’s Revolving Jailhouse Door: One Pretrial Detention After Another 
