2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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The year 2020 will be forever marked by the global pandemic that rippled across continents, claimed close to 2 million lives—a toll that rises still—and fundamentally altered human activity, from the ways we socialize and travel to how we perform our jobs. On top of that once-in-a-hundred-years news event, there was a historic U.S. presidential election, Britain finally exited the EU, the Atlantic experienced the most named storms on record and cities around the world protested systemic racism.
Here’s how we told some of 2020’s most important stories through data, charts, maps and visuals.
Coronavirus
Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World
Tracking the Spread of the Coronavirus Outbreak in the U.S.
The Stocks Senators Unloaded Before the Coronavirus Crash
Coronavirus Is Spreading and Cruise Ships Are Still Sailing
Majority Black Counties See Triple the Covid Death Rate
Americans’ Commitment to Social Distancing Is Eroding
Why Acting Fast Is the Key to Beating a Second Wave of Covid-19
Pandemic Travel Patterns Hint at Our Urban Future
New York City Reopening Splits Along Lines of Wealth and Race
Mapping U.S. Covid-19 Cases Near You
The Best and Worst Places to Be in the Coronavirus Era
Tracking the Coronavirus Vaccines That Will End the Pandemic
How the U.K. Plans to Lead the World in Covid Vaccination
Despite Pandemic, Thanksgiving Travel Higher in 80% of Counties From 2019
U.S. Election
The Races that Determined Control of the U.S. Senate
The Battleground States Where the U.S. Election Was Fought
Does the Supreme Court Look or Think Like America?
What States Have Learned About Counting Votes in a Pandemic
U.S. Election 2020 Results
Covid Hotspots Stuck With Trump in Close Presidential Race
White Voters in Swing-State Counties Send the GOP a Warning
How Suburbs Swung the 2020 Election
Trump’s New Latino Voters Are Sending Democrats a Message
Wall Street Put Its Money on the 2020 Election’s Winners
Climate
Bloomberg Data Dash: A Live Climate Scoreboard for the World
China Upended the Politics of Plastic and the World Is Still Reeling
The Best Way to Slow Global Warming? You Decide in This Climate Simulator
A Pandemic That Cleared Skies and Halted Cities Isn’t Slowing Global Warming
Mapping America’s Underwater Real Estate
Life and Death in Our Hot Future Will Be Shaped by Today’s Income Inequality
It’s a Race Against Heat, and Humanity Is Losing
Time Is Running Out to Save the Last of the World’s Rainforest
Where Fires Are Burning in the U.S. West
This Year’s Wild Hurricane Season Is an Ominous Sign of What’s Ahead
Time’s Up on Corporate America’s 2020 Climate Goals. Here’s the Results
Business
Airbnb to America’s Big Cities: See You in Court
SoftBank Heads for Record Loss After $80 Billion Startup Spree
Covid-19 Brings a Reckoning of Layoffs to Silicon Valley
The Covid Bankruptcies: Guitar Center to Helicopter Charters
Day Trips Instead of Destinations: Tourist Hot Spots Brace for Lean Years
How the Sacklers Shifted $10.8 Billion of Their Opioid Fortune
Retail Bankruptcies Will Push Mid-Range Malls Over the Edge
Commercial Real Estate’s Pandemic Pain Is Only Just Beginning
