Hannah Ritchie

2 weeks ago | fvcurrent.com | Hannah Ritchie

Weather forecasters are getting better at predicting severe weather events. 📷️ Teyvin Leavitt/Pexels.comThis story was originally published by Our World in Data under a Creative Commons license. Weather forecasts are often seen as just a nice thing to have. Useful when planning a Sunday barbecue or when we want to know if we’ll need an umbrella for the day. But in many ways, weather forecasts are absolutely crucial: they can be a matter of life and death.

2 weeks ago | foodlog.nl | Hannah Ritchie

Miljoenen mensen sterven elk jaar vroegtijdig door luchtvervuiling. Dit probleem bestaat al sinds de mens begon met het verbranden van materialen voor energie – eerst hout en biomassa, later fossiele brandstoffen. Toch is het een milieuprobleem én een gezondheidsprobleem waar we wél iets aan kunnen doen. We weten dat omdat we al succesvol zijn geweest in het verminderen van luchtverontreinigende stoffen. Landen die ooit zwaar vervuild waren, ademen nu merkbaar schonere lucht.

2 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Hannah Ritchie |Yvette Tan

When is the Australian election and who could be prime minister? Australia will vote on 3 May, to choose new members of parliament and determine who the next prime minister will be. A cost-of-living crisis and housing shortages are among the key issues on voters' minds. Some 18 million citizens are expected to head to the polls, in what is likely to be a tight race between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his rival Peter Dutton.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Hannah Ritchie |Yvette Tan

Australia will vote on 3 May, to choose new members of parliament and determine who the next prime minister will be. A cost-of-living crisis and housing shortages are among the key issues on voters' minds. Some 18 million citizens are expected to head to the polls, in what is likely to be a tight race between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his rival Peter Dutton. It is possible that either will need to form the next government by securing the support of independent MPs or minor parties.

2 weeks ago | ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie

Describing someone as “young” or “old” is rather arbitrary. However, something we can quantify is whether a given person is “young” or “old” compared to the rest of the world. Imagine we sorted all 8 billion people alive today from youngest to oldest. The person standing right in the middle would be about 30 years old; that's the median age today. The chart shows the global median age and the UN’s projection to 2100. In 2025, if you are over 30, you are older than most people in the world.