I'm a data scientist @OurWorldinData and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸
We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.
The researcher who maintained it, Professor Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.
A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.
This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.
Launched 🚀 today: our Visual Journalism and design teams’ collaboration with Science colleagues, ahead of Artemis 2 heading to the Moon next week, if all goes to plan.
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After drifting for four decades, one of the world’s oldest icebergs, A23a, is melting fast in warmer waters and could vanish any day now. Beautiful, visual piece:
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Starting the year reflecting on what I've learnt so far being a parent carer to our youngest daughter and the staggering lack of empathy and unfairness we (and so many other families) have experienced:
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Animated deep dive into how Harris or Trump might win - and what the polls and history reveal. A real cross-team effort from visual journalists, designers & devs bbc.co.uk/news/resources…
Twitter, any advice on very good restaurants in Birmingham? Preferably curry, but not necessarily. For a celebration, but hopefully not off-the-scale expensive, because, you know, I'm paying.
“We went to sleep on the 6th thinking there’s a cat over there and we woke up on the 7th and there’s a tiger.”
We've been looking at how one Israeli base on the Gaza border fell so quickly on October 7
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We're looking for a talented visual journalist for a 1-year role in London. If you're passionate about visual storytelling & experienced in creating maps, data visualisations, and infographics, apply now careers.bbc.co.uk/job-invite/183… 📅Deadline: October 1st