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Sweet Sixteen: Some Cool Charts We Made in 2022

Updated: Apr 20, 2023


This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

In 2022, The Xylom’s visual journalist team (of one) covered everything from zero-COVID impacts in China to biodiversity issues, and climate stories ranging from flooding in Nigeria to wildfires devastating the rural West. Inspired by a similar year-in-review piece from FiveThirtyEight, here are some of the most interesting — and weird and colorful and complicated — charts we made in the last 12 months.

Charts are grouped by topic but are not in any particular order beyond that. Click any of them to read the story featuring that chart.


Biodiversity



Climate



Extreme Weather



COVID-19



Health



Research



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Alex Ip

​Alex weaves deeply reported narratives on the future of cities and environmental justice with original photography and open-source intelligence. His reporting on false statements from the City of Atlanta regarding "Cop City" led to him being named the Atlanta Press Club's 2024 Rising Star. 


Born and raised in Hong Kong and fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, Alex also led a team to translate the KSJ Science Editing Handbook into Chinese (Traditional and Simplified). Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Georgia Tech and a master's degree in Science Writing from MIT.

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