The Libyan city of Derna was devastated by floods last week after two dams collapsed during a massive storm. We saw many visualizations incorporate satellite imagery to explain the disaster:
Reuters: Devastation in Derna The New York Times: Dire Warnings About Libya Dams Went Unheeded The Washington Post: See why Libya’s floods were so deadly in maps and videos Financial Times: ‘All should resign’: Derna disaster unleashes wave of anger in Libya The New York Times: Mapping Where Floods Have Devastated a Libyan Port City There was similar imagery of the destruction in Morocco following the previous week's earthquake:
Reuters: Buried under the bricks The dam collapses in Derna were a result of Storm Daniel , which had already caused major flooding in Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria:
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Financial Times: Climate graphic of the week: Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans The Wall Street Journal: Libya Flood Disaster That Killed Thousands Was Decades in Making SPEIGEL: Wie Sturmtief »Daniel« Libyen die Katastrophe brachte Le Figaro: Avant/Après : les images impressionnantes des inondations en Libye We also saw visualizations from the Atlantic hurricane season :
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The Washington Post: The 5 hurricane categories, explained USA Today: Follow Hurricane Lee's path with our tracker. Storm to bring rip currents, storm surge And charts and maps of the usual droughts , wildfires , and heat waves :
Le Monde: Sécheresse : à la fin de l’été, un bilan contrasté, et des niveaux encore « préoccupants » dans certaines zones du Sud Les Echos: Sécheresse : 40.000 personnes sont privées d'eau potable en France CNN: Wildfires in Canada led to dangerous air quality in parts of the US for the first time The Wall Street Journal: How Crops Survived Drought, Deluge and the Hottest Summer on Record Le Monde: La « saison » des vagues de chaleur s’allonge et s’intensifie sous l’effet du réchauffement climatique Two beautiful illustrated stories focused specifically on the problems of urban heat :
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The New York Times: How to Cool Down a City South China Morning Post: In summer of 2023, Hong Kong sweltered as world set heat record And these visualizations covered housing and land use :
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The New York Times: What Happens When Wall Street Buys Most of the Homes on Your Block? Financial Times: Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all FAZ: Frankfurter Allgemein Boden – begehrt, begrenzt, (un)bezahlbar On war and what we could have instead:
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The Wall Street Journal: The Unexpected New Winners in the Global Energy War Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The Wall Street Journal: Hypersonic Missiles Are Game-Changers, and America Doesn’t Have Them Jason Forrest: "Just stumbled across this great chart *inspired* by Buckminster Fuller. It effectively looks at the total amount of money spent on the military globally in 1999 and shows just how little of that would be needed to pay for solving 'all human needs,'" September 17 (Tweet And on politics :
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The Economist: Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure The Washington Post: Term limits would upend Congress as we know it Other charts covered everything from Amazon's next big thing to recent developments (well, not that recent) in infectious disease :
The Wall Street Journal: Amazon Searches for Its Next Big Hit The Wall Street Journal: Banks Load Up on $1.2 Trillion in Risky ‘Hot’ Deposits Financial Times: In charts: Threat from infectious diseases eases across the world And the final category is... pink:
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. The Markup: Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself The Washington Post: How deeply did prescription opioid pills flood your county? See here Le Monde: La Méditerranée centrale redevient la première porte d’entrée irrégulière en Europe 
