Data Vis Dispatch, September 6

First, the devastating floods in Pakistan, caused by heavy monsoon rains in August:

While Pakistan gets too much rain, the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia get too little. Several news organizations reported on droughts and rivers with low water levels:

Like heavy rainfalls and droughts are, hot temperatures is another consequence of climate change that the northern hemisphere had to deal with this summer. The Swiss broadcasting company SRF launched a daily updating climate dashboard, while Hungarian visualization team Atlo shows how Hungary's weather might change until the end of the century:

To reduce CO2 emissions, we don't need to lower ecomic growth, as many countries have demonstrated (but we should give up on cruises):

After summer comes winter – and energy becomes a more important topic. Consumers face high prices for gas and electricity, while EU countries try to fill their gas storages despite the Russia-Ukraine war:

When it comes to demographics, we learned that the Chinese population could be down to 800 or even 500 million people by the end of the century:

The terrible conflicts in the Ukraine and Taiwan brought us beautifully designed maps:

And we got more maps thanks to environmental issues, like Minnesota's declining biodiversity – and the leak of Diesel cargo by a semi-sunken ship off the coast of Gibraltar in Spain:

Here's some better news: We found so many visualizations about sports that it gets its own section this week 🎉!

And in our miscellaneous section, we got some interesting visualization types for you: A rotated flow chart, a hyper-detailed network graph, a connected scatterplot, a Marimekko chart and much more: