Felix Richter is a data journalist at Statista.
Hot off the heels of the IPCC’s latest report on the current state of climate change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that July 2021 was officially th...
25 years ago, on August 15, 1996, Nokia released the Nokia 9000 Communicator. Able to send and receive email and access the web via its 9.6 kbit/s GSM modem, the Communicator was way ahea...
Stoked by extreme heat and drought, huge wildfires are currently raging across Southern Europe, forcing thousands of people to abandon their homes and destroying vast stretches of forestl...
One argument often brought up against the transition to electric cars is the assertion that, all things considered, electric vehicles aren’t that much cleaner than internal combustion eng...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, forcing gyms to shutter and public transportation to suspend operation, millions of Americans re-discovered bicycles as a s...
Job openings surged to a record high in April as businesses, especially in the hospitality sector, are looking to staff up ahead of what is expected to be a busy summer season. According ...
As Apple is kicking off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, the company is dealing with a little trouble on the home front. Following the company’s internal annou...
As vaccination rates climb and case numbers drop in many parts of the world, companies are preparing for life after the pandemic. In many cases, that involves bringing workers back to the...
Despite 2020 being a sluggish year for the global automobile industry, electric car sales continued to grow. According to the latest edition of the International Energy Agency’s Global EV...
With smartphones, tablets and e-readers reaching mass adoption over the past few years, many have predicted that printed books would soon become a thing of the past. And while it’s true t...
The OECD released its latest interim Economic Outlook report on Tuesday, providing us with an updated look at the pandemic’s impact on the world economy. Striking a cautiously optimistic ...
With Tesla’s meteoric stock market rise in 2020 and several countries and car manufacturers announcing new electric vehicle targets, electric cars have been in the spotlight for a while n...
Despite difficult circumstances and the pandemic's negative impact on the the automotive industry, electric vehicles made a giant leap forward in many countries in 2020. According to esti...
As international travel came to a near complete standstill in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the aviation industry suffered what it describes as “the worst year in history for air tra...
Coming off the worst year in tourism history, there’s little sense of optimism in the travel industry in early 2021. Following an estimated $1.3 trillion loss in export revenue in 2020, t...
