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The best of the Guardian's interactives and graphics
  • Nour AbuShammala's family photos overlaid on a map of Gaza with a central picture of her destroyed home

    What is ‘home’ now? A woman’s two-year search for safety in the ruins of Gaza

    Nour AbuShammala has returned to her partly destroyed apartment in Gaza City. This is her story of multiple displacements, injury and devastation over the last two years
  • An illustration shows a young boy sitting in a pill, surrounded by text taken from internet forums

    Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive

  • Illustration of a deep-sea mining machine being lowered to sea bed with hydrothermal vents, flora and fauna.

    As countries scramble for minerals, the seabed beckons. Will mining it be a disaster? – visual explainer

  • Delcy Rodríguez

    Delcy Rodríguez strikes defiant tone but must walk tightrope as Venezuela’s interim leader

    Technocrat must accommodate US demands while shoring up a regime that is hated by many Venezuelans
  • Map of where abortion is accessible now and after Roe is overturned

    Abortion deserts: America’s new geography of access to care – mapped

  • Lyndon B Johnson, George HW Bush and Joe Biden delivering state of the union speeches to congress.

    The rise and fall of US enemies and allies in State of the Union speeches – a visual guide

  • trump lawsuit trail image

    The long list of legal cases against Donald Trump

  • us map-01

    Covid-19 map of the US: latest cases state by state

  • Two people sitting across a table with tarot cards

    ‘Air rage’ and personality tests: our favorite illustrations of 2021

  • An image of the 1919 Omaha race riot layered over footage of modern day Omaha: ‘It was really profound to be at these sites after studying all this.’

    ‘A reminder of what human beings can be capable of’: a journey to the sites of America’s forgotten race massacres

Explainers

  • Illustration of changing constituencies in the UK

    What constituency am I in? New boundary map for UK general election – and how changes may affect you

  • Visuals Inflation trail

    How the cost of living crisis is hammering UK households – in charts

  • Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics Artistic Training - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - July 22, 2021 Simone Biles of the United States on the vault during training REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

    Simone Biles: how she breaks the boundaries of gymnastics

  • Map of Afghanistan with flightpaths imposed over it.

    Evacuating Afghanistan: a visual guide to flights in and out of Kabul

Environment

  • Illustration of raw sewage river discharges in the UK

    ‘Unacceptable’: how raw sewage has affected rivers in England and Wales – in maps

  • Air Pollution Trail Pic

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    Air pollution may be damaging 'every organ in the body'

  • A dry section of the Serre-Ponçon lake as water levels decreased some 14 meters due to the drought in 2022.

    Twelve European countries broke temperature records in 2022

  • coal3-01

    The power switch
    Tracking Britain's record coal-free run

Coronavirus data

  • Interactive: how Downing Street parties took place on days when hundreds died of Covid

    How No 10’s alleged parties took place as UK Covid death toll rose – interactive

  • Vaccines make death rates decrease

    Vaccine inequality: how rich countries cut Covid deaths as poorer fall behind

  • Workers cremate the bodies of Covid-19 victims in New Delhi, India.

    Poor countries need billions in aid to avert Covid catastrophe, experts warn

  • Graphic: people in masks and illustration

    Revealed: the data that shows how Covid bounced back after UK's lockdowns

  • A heart made out of torn pages

    Self-publish and be scammed: Jon’s tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles

  • An isolated gray woman stands in the middle of a crowd of yellow and purple people interacting with each other

    At 56, I woke to silence: the strange, sudden loss that changed everything

  • Person in a grid-lined room carrying a small box while large digital hands above hold and tape a cardboard box.

    Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work

  • Standardwing bird-of-paradise imposed on to world maps showing mining and biodiversity areas.

    This is the story of Weda Bay – and how nature is being sacrificed for mining

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