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.
June 22, 2020
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June 3, 2020
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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.
June 2, 2020
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Google Mobility Trends: How has the pandemic changed the movement of people around the world?
Data tracking public mobility trends over the pandemic
May 14, 2020
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How to read the famous coronavirus trajectory chart — video explainer
What we can and can’t learn from COVID-19 charts.
May 14, 2020
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How do the carbon footprints of foods compare? Our article as a video.
Which foods have the highest and lowest carbon footprint?
March 23, 2020
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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.
March 18, 2020
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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.
March 10, 2020
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The carbon footprint of foods: are differences explained by the impacts of methane?
How we treat the climate impacts of methane matters a lot for the carbon footprint of foods. But even if we exclude methane, meat and dairy products emit the most.
March 4, 2020
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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.
February 10, 2020
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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.
February 4, 2020
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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.
January 28, 2020
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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.
January 24, 2020
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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 your diet's carbon footprint. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it comes from?
December 11, 2019
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Is there a loneliness epidemic?
The media claims we are experiencing a ‘loneliness epidemic’. What is the evidence for this?
December 11, 2019
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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.
December 1, 2019
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Antiretroviral therapy has saved millions of lives from AIDS and could save more
Since the late 1980s, antiretroviral therapy has already saved millions of lives from HIV/AIDS. But millions of people with HIV still aren’t getting this life-saving treatment.
November 15, 2019
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The importance of personal relations for economic outcomes
Social connections matter for economic outcomes. Personal relations, even those that we maintain for non-economic reasons, often give us access to information and provide us with social collateral for economic transactions.
November 12, 2019
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Pneumonia — no child should die from a disease we can prevent
How many children die from pneumonia? How has this changed over time, and how can we prevent it?
November 11, 2019
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Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture
More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
November 6, 2019
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Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions
One-quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions result from food and agriculture. What are the main contributors to food's emissions?
November 4, 2019
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What are the environmental impacts of food and agriculture?
Feeding the world whilst reducing food's impact on the environment is one of our greatest challenges in the coming decades. What are food's environmental impacts?