
Ashley Kirk
Visual Editor at The Guardian
Visuals editor @Guardian. Visiting #ddj lecturer @CityJournalism. Previously data journalist @Telegraph
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Seán Clarke |Ed Gargan |Ashley Kirk |Antonio Voce
The first results are expected after midnight. Polling has taken place in councils across England, and there have been six mayoral elections. Voters also went to the polls in a parliamentary byelection in Runcorn and Helsby. On 1 May many county councils in England are up for election. In areas with two tiers of local government, the county councils are the upper tier, with responsibility for big-budget areas such as education and social care. Some unitary authorities are also up for election.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Ed Gargan |Ashley Kirk |Prina Shah |Karen McVeigh
Deep-sea mining has been proposed as a source of critical metals and minerals for decades, but mining companies now say the technology is almost ready to make this a reality. Mining has not begun yet but 2025 is set to be a crucial year. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), the regulator, has a new leader promising an era of openness, with meetings planned in March and July to discuss the next steps.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Tural Ahmedzade |Antonio Voce |Ashley Kirk
Europe is on high alert after a series of outages to cables and pipelines. This visual guide explains what happened and what’s being done
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Tural Ahmedzade |Ashley Kirk |Niels de Hoog |Ajit Niranjan
Two-thirds of the world’s surface was scorched by a month or more of record-breaking heat, Guardian analysis of satellite data can reveal. In oceans and on land, from Colombia to China, and from the north to south pole, records for the monthly average temperature were smashed time and time again last year – in some cases, by as much as 5C (9F) hotter than the previous record.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
msn.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy
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