Hyderabad is just one example of a growing global wave of resistance against the perceived twin threats of militarized deforestation and democratic backsliding. Unlike Atlanta, the development process seems to have stalled: the Supreme Court of India has sided with students against the state government, granting a moratorium on forest-clearing.

Here are some of the most interesting — and weird and colorful and complicated — charts we made in the last 12 months.

The trees, the birds, the fungi, and the dirt—none of them care if the Mayor of Atlanta denies they exist.