Data Vis Dispatch, May 14

How did you spend your evenings this week? Maybe watching the Eurovision Song Contest — or the aurora borealis?

Ever heard of GPS jamming?

Let’s zoom in on one of the areas of high GPS jamming: the border between Russia and Ukraine. Two column charts show that Russian bombardment is actually increasing, even as sanctions are restricting deliveries of aircraft parts:

We zoom out and back in again on another GPS jamming hot spot: the Middle East. This week’s maps and charts visualized the Israeli ground operation in Rafah, the killing and displacement of Gazan civilians, and the blocking of humanitarian aid:

Meanwhile, CNN reports on a newly established Israeli military detention center, and international pro-Palestinian student protests continue — with no small impact on U.S. politics:

It’s election year! This week we found a multimedia project that captures the hopes and aspirations of first-time voters in India, and detailed polling and results from the Catalonian elections of May 12. There, for the first time in over a decade, the regional government could be led by an anti-independence party:

Flood and fire dominated the environmental visualizations:

The threat of wildfires is affecting the insurance coverage of wealthy homeowners in some parts of the United States. And hundreds of locals are a thorn in the side of a wealthy oil heir who owns a strip of land in the Colorado mountains:

Bad news for climate — scientists expect global warming to exceed the global 1.5 degree target and record temperatures to continue:

Good news for climate — the world may have passed peak pollution, and better battery storage systems are improving the reliability and resilience of clean electricity:

Let’s switch on a cluster about energy, in particular nuclear energy:

This week’s news focused on women is a rollercoaster of emotions. Labor and delivery wards in Nigeria are without essential medical equipment; the U.S. rise in maternal mortality may be due to a change in measurement; fertility rates are dropping noticeably in many countries; and women are increasing their presence in Japanese boardrooms:

In the world of labor, we found membership in the United Auto Workers union (UAW) and platform work in Korea:

Finally, all different kinds of routes, from the travels and dangers faced by a whale named Bishop, to our daily commutes, to the role of Chinese exports in the Mexican drug trade: