Jana Tauschinski

Blood on the streets of El Fasher: satellite images and videos capture new atrocities in Sudan as RSF forces take the city, marking a new chapter in the country’s ruinous civil war.

W/ William Wallis, @janatausch.bsky.social, @digitalcampbell.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/f39c...

Our World in Data Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems

For now, we’re using the hundreds of datasets compiled by @ourworldindata.org

They source data from the World Bank, FAO, UN, WHO, and more, all consistently formatted, which makes it easy for us to connect to their API and use the data with just a few filters.

I’ll explain a bit more some of the functionalities and what’s happening behind the scenes here now that the game is live!

If you didn’t play on a previous day, don’t panic! You can access the history to play past games and also see how many tries it took you to succeed on previous days.

Chartle - A daily chart game Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart

day two!!! 🔌🔋🚗

📈 Chartle for 13 Sep 2025

Guessed in 2 tries
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Play at chartle.cc

addictive qualities guaranteed 📈

📈 Can you guess today’s chartle?

Which country in the world do you think produces the most bananas?

Have a try at chartle.cc

NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry

Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor.

👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

New visual investigation: Inside America's booming immigration detention industry where record levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives & detainees say. ⁦

ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention system - 85% run privately.

Record numbers are now being held and detainees, lawyers and relatives have spoken of poor conditions.

🔗 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions

Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Is Europe prepared for war? With US support for transatlantic security faltering, Nato nations are fortifying the eastern frontier with Russia

Is Europe prepared for war? https://on.ft.com/4nsBo1V

w @peter.andringa.me Dan Clark @samjoiner.bsky.social @sdbernard.bsky.social

Satellite images of Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, from May 20 and June 13 2025. The recent images shows several damaged and destroyed structures.

Radar satellite imagery from Umbra shows several damaged and destroyed structures at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, following Israeli strikes this morning

More maps and videos of the multiple attacks in our story here: on.ft.com/445zvPR

How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution [FREE TO READ] Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US

China is on its way to becoming the world’s first major 'electrostate', with a growing share of its energy coming from electricity and an economy increasingly driven by clean technologies 📈🌏🧵
w/ @janatausch.bsky.social and Ed White

on.ft.com/3EWY5Kd

Join @julianhoffmann.bsky.social and me at Queen Mary's this Wednesday for some talks on data viz and more. I'll talk about visualising climate data in the newsroom amongst other things (and am v excited to hear more about Julian's 3D wizardry)

Register here and hope to see you there! 🗺️ 📈

Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy [FREE TO READ] FT documentary investigates rise in cases of Russian soldiers executing Ukrainian POWs

New: Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy.

Investigation with @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @alisonkilling.bsky.social @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me

An animation of a digital bitcoin rolling into view on an orange rectangular background

NEW: Can Trump make bitcoin useful?

President Trump's embrace of crypto has helped supercharge bitcoin's price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Investors are excited by the prospect of a national bitcoin stockpile, but how such a reserve would work is unclear.

ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...

Thanks both!

NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

Boxplot chart showing distribution of average daily surface air temperatures compared with pre-industrial average, by year, degrees Celsius. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C

2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C above pre-industrial levels

2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest years on record

while this year is expected to be cooler, partly because of the diminished el niño impact, it will likely still rank among the 3 hottest

on.ft.com/3PwbnPC

Maps of air temperature anomaly foe each year since 1970 to 2024. Little maps are getting from blue to red with the last 10 years all very red as it is getting warmer than normal.

This new record beats last year's previous record, and makes the past 10 years the hottest on record.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A fun one for NYE - I looked at club listings going back a decade in 15 cities to show that the trend for dance events to end earlier is global - with UK cities seeing some of the biggest shifts 📉🪩

Who killed the rave? (Gift link) on.ft.com/3PhQuY7

How China is setting up shop in Mexico An increasingly close trade relationship is causing concern in Washington

NEW: How China is setting up shop in Mexico
Our visual story explores the increasingly close trade relationship that is causing concern in Washington ig.ft.com/china-mexico...

Ridgeline plot showing daily sea ice extent compared with 1981-2010 average, million sq km, by year. 1979-2024. More days have less Arctic sea ice in recent years.

The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day by 2030, new research shows

"The fact that the Arctic sea ice cover has changed so significantly that [its loss in] 2030 is even a remote possibility shows how much change there has already been in the Arctic environment”

on.ft.com/3DgyKJK

You added 46 new plugins to QGIS,
39 of which you’ve only used that one time

NEW: AI is powering a robotics revolution, transforming the way machines learn and interact with the world.

🤖 Are the robots finally coming? 🤖

ig.ft.com/ai-robots/

I couldn't see an overall starter pack for FT journalists active on Bluesky. So given the recent influx of new people on here, I thought it'd be useful to make one.

Do shout out all the people I've inevitably missed and I'll update

go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD

A dramatic chart from our explainer on how Trump won www.ft.com/content/392e...