Data journalist at Statista
On Wednesday, insurance broker Aon reported that insured losses from natural disasters reached $42 billion in the first half of 2021. While the figure represents a 10-year high for insure...
The Rockefeller Foundation has released a new report which has found that Americans are only paying a third of their food's true value. The research states that total U.S. food expenditur...
A recent report from Gallup has found that increasing numbers of Americans are putting the pandemic behind them and dropping measures such as social distancing or avoiding socializing. Ga...
The United Nations has announced that it has recognized a new record-high temperature of 18.3°C or 64.9°F set on the Antarctic continent last year. It was set at Argentina's Esperanza bas...
Scientists and officials have been urging Americans to break with tradition and ditch fireworks this Fourth of July amid a sweltering heatwave in the U.S. Pacific northwest and Canada. Gi...
The pandemic has created a cycling boom across much of the world and the U.S. is no exception. When the country locked down, millions of Americans went out and purchased bicycles, though ...
As well as leading to greater awareness about mental health conditions, the global Covid-19 pandemic has also led to a spike in the number of people seeking support. Unfortunately, some c...
AfricArena has released a new report using Partech data which has forecast that venture capital funding for African startups will amount to between $2.25 billion and $2.8 billion this yea...
The social distancing measures introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has forced many people to work from home and accelerated the trend of remote working. Eurostat have released...
Renewable power generation grew at the fastest rate for two decades in 2020 according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. 278 gigawatts of capacity was added last year, ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, global remittance flows have proven more resilient than expected. This is especially true for inflows to low and middle-income countries.
Carsharing has become increasingly popular across the world in recent years, particularly in urban areas where people can rely on efficient public transport or cycling for the majority of...
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2020 Internet Crime Report, which found that 2020 was a record year for both victims of internet crime and dollar losses i...
许多国家在大流行开始时经历了恐慌性抢购浪潮，导致超市货架空空如也，实际上这些国家的粮食安全水平是全球最高的。早在新冠肺炎疫情爆发时，超市就出现了顾客大量购买面食、大米等必需食品的混乱局面。需求飙升并不意味着粮食短缺，而仅仅是需求超过供应而出现供应瓶颈。一年后，超市的压力减轻了，但是全球粮食安全问题依然存在。
Many of the countries that experienced waves of panic-buying at the start of the pandemic that resulted in empty supermarket shelves actually have some of the highest levels of food secur...
