Emerging COVID-19 Success Story: South Korea Learned the Lessons of MERS
South Korea is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.
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Emerging COVID-19 success story: Germany’s strong enabling environment
Germany is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.How experts use data to identify emerging COVID-19 success stories
How can we identify which countries have responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic? We look at the key metrics that help us identify success stories.A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries
Excess mortality has become a key metric to understand the true impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. How is excess mortality measured; and what can we learn from cross-country comparisons?We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about climate change: 'Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?'
A video about the contributors to climate change, and how countries can work together.Best practices for governments reporting COVID-19 testing data
Not all countries report their data in a helpful way. To help official providers of testing data, we set out some simple recommendations based the best reporting practices across the countries included in our testing dataset.Google Mobility Trends: How has the pandemic changed the movement of people around the world?
Data tracking public mobility trends over the pandemicCOVID-19 Data Explorer
Explore all of our data on COVID-19 vaccinations, cases, excess mortality, and much more.How to read the famous coronavirus trajectory chart — video explainer
What we can and can’t learn from COVID-19 charts.How do the carbon footprints of foods compare? Our article as a video.
Which foods have the highest and lowest carbon footprint?We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about the COVID-19 pandemic
We worked with the Youtube channel, Kurzgesagt, to make a video on the COVID-19 pandemic and what to do about it.Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions
Food waste accounts for around one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from food. That's 6% of total global emissions.The carbon footprint of foods: are differences explained by the impacts of methane?
How we treat the climate impacts of methane matter a lot for carbon footprint of foods. But even if we exclude methane, meat and dairy products emit the most.The Spanish flu: The global impact of the largest influenza pandemic in history
The Spanish flu pandemic had a devastating impact on the global population.What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?
Fossil fuels are the dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources, while nuclear and modern renewable energy sources are vastly safer and cleaner.Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat, to reduce your carbon footprint
Plant-based protein sources still have a lower footprint than the lowest-impact meat products.Very little of global food is transported by air; this greatly reduces the climate benefits of eating local
Transporting food by plane can come with a large carbon footprint. But very little of our food travels this way – just 0.16% of food miles are from air travel.You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it's come from?Is there a loneliness epidemic?
The media claims we are experiencing a ‘loneliness epidemic’. What is the evidence for this?Are people more likely to be lonely in so-called 'individualistic' societies?
In countries such as Denmark and Switzerland, it is very common for people to live alone; but contrary to what many believe, this does not translate into higher loneliness. Loneliness and aloneness are not the same.Antiretroviral therapy has saved millions of lives from AIDS and could save more
38 million people had HIV/AIDS in 2020. A couple of decades ago, the chances of surviving more than ten years with HIV were slim. Today, thanks to antiretroviral therapy (ART), people with HIV/AIDS can expect to live long lives. How many lives has ART saved?