With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) to be held in a month’s time in Glasgow, Scotland, global warming and environmental damage have been at the centre of media concerns around the world. From September 20 to 26, nodeXL mapping and our own human healing, we also uncovered research on oil burning on Greek islands, heat-related deaths in Germany, China’s vast fishing fleet, the U. S. murder rate, and the U. S. murder rate. The US and anomalies in the recent Russian elections.
Last year, satellite knowledge showed several hundred Chinese boats fishing for squid near Ecuador’s UNESCO-listed Galapagos archipelago. To practice the Chinese fleet, The Associated Press and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision spent 18 days on the sea surface before this year. Journalists analyzed more satellite and fisheries knowledge to read about the environmental effect on China’s maritime operations.
– The Associated Press (@AP) September 24, 2021
Migration remains a major challenge for the U. S. government. USA Despite the Biden administration’s resolve to oppose the hard-working policies of his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. opportunity to seek asylum and bring them back to their countries of origin. Reuters analyzed the knowledge of U. S. Customs and Border Protection. The U. S. Department of Health and Drug Administration is used to investigate the number of migrants deported under the so-called Title 42 public aptitude policy.
– Reuters Graphics (@ReutersGraphics) 23 September 2021
Last year, Reporters United, a Greek member of GIJN, joined Investigate Europe to publish research showing how the European Union has sabotaged its own climate goals with large fossil fuel subsidies. Islands, which are cut off from the country’s main power grid, and will have to rely on oil turbines that charge billions of euros to operate.
– Investigate Europe (@investigate_eu) 21 September 2021
If you live in a European city, chances are you enjoy a physically powerful web speed. An investigation through the Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa, published through the European Data Journalism Network, found that web functionality has particularly advanced in the last 18 months. They found that the gap between urban and more rural spaces had also widened. This type of regional inequality can have serious effects on business, schooling and other spaces of social life.
– European Data Journalism Network (@EdjNet) 22 September 2021
In 2019, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum released a report revealing what many analysts had long suspected: that the desperately deficient country has up to $1 trillion in untapped mineral resources, but investors and experts told Al Jazeera that the lack of security, weak law and corruption has impeded the development of the mining sector. Now that the Taliban have taken over the war-torn country, the point-of-sale’s graphic team has produced this visual piece to illustrate the scale of the reserves and their geographical location.
We break down the mineral wealth of #Afganistán into 6 graphs.
Latest on @AJLabs @AJEnglish with @muh_hossein #ddjhttps: //t. co/LC3NvZRwfD pic. twitter. com/BaKrYpVLQO
– Mohammed Haddad (@haddadme) 24 September 2021
In 2020, the United States experienced the largest accumulation of homicides since national record keeping began in 1960, the New York Times reported. Data collected through the FBI shows that the homicide rate is well below its all-time high in the 1980s. Nearly 5,000 more homicides were committed last year compared to 2019, for a total of about 21,500 In about 77% of cases, the culprit used a firearm. it is “a national phenomenon, not a regional one”.
An estimated 17 million other people, or about 6. 5% of American adults, purchased guns last year.
39% of American families now own firearms, up from 32% in 2016. https://t. co/VXCE6ClVGW
– Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) September 22, 2021
Palestinian families have suffered from severe water shortages for decades. When they don’t have enough water for themselves, some are forced to buy it from an Israeli company, Mekorot. Some West Bank cities now rely on Mekorot as their main source of water, according to a survey through GIJN member Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ). This water shortage has also led some Palestinians to buy allegedly infected mineral water from some other Israeli company.
Read about it here⬇️ https: //t. co/T2wkpS7TTd pic. twitter. com/O71k2Gbadz
– Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (@ARIJNetwork) September 24, 2021
Thousands of people die every year in Germany as a result of the heat. Urbanization and emerging temperatures due to climate change are compounding the problem. Bavarian Radio (BR) has tested satellite photographs to illustrate so-called “heat islands”. , which show to know hot German cities.
– Steffen Kühne (@stekhn) 20 September 2021
After President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won the recent elections to Russia’s State Duma, news experts and independent analysts expressed considerations about imaginable electoral fraud. iStories detected suspicious anomalies.
(МАТЕРИАЛ) И (ИЛИ) ИНОСТРАННЫМ СРЕДСТВОМ МАССОВОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ, ВЫПОЛНЯЮЩИМ ФУНКЦИИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА, (ИЛИ) РОССИЙСКИМ ЮРИДИЧЕСКИМ ЛИЦОМ, ВЫПОЛНЯЮЩИМ ФУНКЦИИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТАhttps: //t. co/Sz60bP9CPu
– ажные истории (@istories_media) 21 September 2021
In England, Scotland and Wales, seven out of ten rejected disability benefit appeals have been a success since 2018, according to research through the BBC’s Shared Data Unit. In Northern Ireland, six out of ten appeals in the last two years have been But in the same period, many other people suffering from ailments or other ailments died before they had a chance to hear judges rule on their case.
– Alex Homer (@alexhomer) September 24, 2021
Peter Georgiev is GIJN’s Editor-in-Chief of Social Media and Engagement. Previously, the component of NBC News’ investigative unit in New York. He also worked as a correspondent for Bulgarian national television and his reports have been published through The Guardian, Deutsche. Welle and other foreign media.
What is the data-driven journalism (#ddj) crowd all about?Here are the top data journalism links of the week on Twitter (January 23-29). If you click on an image, you will be redirected to GIJN’s new Pinterest board, where you can locate links to stories.
This week, our links come with elements from the Global Editors Network, Journalism. co. uk, Askmedia. fr (and GIJN’s own knowledge resources page in Spanish). Thanks to Marc Smith of Connected Action for collecting the links and representing them graphically.