No clean air in sight: Europe’s worst-affected cities
With the EU voting on new air quality rules, satellite data shows 98% of people face pollution above limits recommended by the World Health Organization.
Birth rates are falling even in Nordic countries: stability is no longer enough
Fertility declines across the European Union, with the South lagging behind. Birth rates in northern countries also show signs of decline as the causes become more structural and unrelated to wealth and stability. What's going on? A data-story.
Rural depopulation is playing a major role in causing fires in Romania
In the fourth part of the "Romania is burning" series, we explain how the emptying of Romanian villages has unforeseen consequences. Where there is no more work, farmlands burn – taking with them forests and protected wildlife.
Greece’s map for predicting wildfires is anachronistic and inadequate
Greece's current wildfire prediction map lacks transparency and fails to account for real-time weather changes, resulting in inadequate response to rapidly evolving fire conditions.
Depopulation is changing the fire map of Europe
The rural exodus and the climate crisis have transformed Europe's countryside, and with it the fires that affect the continent every summer.
Mapping Diversity – Full dataset release
Today we are releasing the full dataset behind Mapping Diversity, our investigation into the street names of cities across Europe, focusing on the individuals who get celebrated through them. In this project, we mapped dozens of thousands of street names by bringing together data from OpensStreetMap and Wikidata. We automatically filtered and categorized street
Ukraine’s wildfires surge amidst war
Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine led to a surge in forest and rural fires across the country. Combating them is all the more difficult amidst the war that binds all resources and unexploded mines that contaminate the territory.
A Czech national forest park is reviving after a devastating fire
On the first anniversary of the fire in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, a reporter and photographer from Deník Referendum spent a day there in the company of local experts Dana Vébrová and Jakub Hruška. What they saw contradicts much conventional wisdom.
Roads in Central and South-Eastern Europe are five times deadlier than Scandinavian ones
The number of people killed in road accidents in the EU decreased by 33% in 2010-21. Stark differences between countries remain, with Romania, Bulgaria, and Latvia presenting the most dangerous situation.
Women have been erased from Zagreb’s history
Only nine percent of the streets in 30 large European cities are named after women: a sign that women's contributions to the history of cities have been not just forgotten, but erased. A municipal committee in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, wants to change the situation, but a series of obstacles is slowing down progress.
