An eye-opening new map has ranked countries by obesity levels, with a surprisingly small island leading the pack. Presented in an interactive format by Our World in Data, the map draws on figures ...

Small Island Developing States face high flood risks due to climate change, despite contributing the least to global ...

A unique satellite dataset on the world's tropical forests is now available for all to see and use. It's a high-resolution image map covering 64 countries that will be updated monthly. Anyone who ...

The United States and Russia combine for 88 percent of all nuclear weapons in the world, with the stock of nukes globally ...

Why is Gaza, one of the most densely populated places in the world, blurry on Google Maps? It's an issue that ... "The fact that we don't get high-resolution satellite images from Israel and ...

Map O.1 Use of aggregated cellphone records to track mobility week by week during COVID-19 lockdowns in The Gambia, March–May, 2020 http://bit.do/WDR2021-Map-O_1 ...

Climate change is compounding the risk of flooding across SIDS by increasing the magnitude of many factors, including ...

For three of the 57 countries concentrated in the Pacific ... used water risk intelligence firm Fathom’s Global Flood Map; a ...

A new study has exposed for the first time how inhabitants of the smallest countries globally, contributing least to climate change, already bear the brunt of its devastating consequences and the ...

The emergency authorizations of several COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020 and early 2021 led the world to its next phase of the pandemic: getting these novel shots into arms worldwide. This map shows ...

Fekitamoeloa ‘Utoikamanu is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High ... of the world. What we are seeing is a result of the serious and manifold development challenges these countries ...