Arctic sea ice shrank to 4.60 million km² on 12 September 2026, tied for 10th lowest in 48 years of satellite records, according to NSIDC. All 20 of the lowest minimums came in 2007–2026; the winter maximum, 14.29 million km² in 2026, tied with 2025's for the lowest.

The Global Carbon Budget 2026 projects that China's fossil CO2 emissions will fall 0.9% this year, after two years of almost no growth. Its range runs from a 2.6% fall to a 0.8% rise, and twice since 2015 a fall it projected for China turned out to be a rise, so one projected fall does not establish a peak.

Energy accounted for almost all (99.8%) of the rise. It made up 6.4% of the CPI basket in September 2025 but 36.2% of September 2026's 3.7% inflation rate; everything else added 2.38 percentage points, as in February, down from 2.84 a year earlier.

The US had 5,182 confirmed measles cases in 2026 by 5 November, according to CDC data, the most in a year since 1991 and more than twice 2025's 2,289. A PAHO commission is meeting on 10–13 November to review whether the US has lost its measles elimination status.

130 of 237 countries and territories had fertility below 2.1 children per woman in 2023, up from 60 in 1990. Most kept falling; sub-Saharan Africa now has almost a third of the world's births.

In 2025 solar generated more electricity than wind for the first time in this 1985–2025 series, and solar and wind together accounted for 99.7% of the net increase in world generation while fossil generation was roughly flat.

2026 would need an October–December anomaly 0.17–0.18°C above the warmest previous final quarter to overtake 2024 in this monthly ERA5 calculation.

If no French household could keep more than €10 million, the fortunes above that line would be worth almost half of GDP. Two-thirds of it belongs to just 153 families.

If no American could keep more than $10 million, the fortunes above that line would be worth about 60% of GDP. The money matters less than you'd think, and the power matters more.

A data-driven look at how the EU Emissions Trading System has driven down industrial carbon output since 2005.

A deep dive into the longest continuous record of atmospheric CO₂, showing what the numbers reveal about our changing planet.

A data-driven look at how fossil fuel emissions have grown from a trickle to a flood since the Industrial Revolution.

A deep dive into the CBOE Volatility Index, the market's most watched measure of fear and uncertainty since 1990.

A data-driven look at how the computing power behind notable AI models has grown by over a trillion times in just a few decades.

How Henry Hub natural gas prices have swung wildly since 1997, and what the data reveals about energy markets, shale, and global supply.

A look at how global GDP data reveals the dramatic rise of China, the resilience of the US, and the stagnation of once-dominant economies.

Brent crude oil prices tell the story of wars, recessions, and energy revolutions — all in a single line chart.

A deep dive into 150 years of S&P 500 data, revealing how inflation, valuation cycles, and long-term growth shape investor returns.

We built and published three fully documented, CSV-downloadable datasets covering the 2026 World Cup. Here is what we found — and how we handled the data quality problems that make most World Cup numbers unreliable.

Queryless lets anyone explore raw data using natural language—like asking "What were our sales last month?" in chat. Behind the scenes, it generates analytical SQL queries and runs them on DuckDB to turn files into fast, interactive insights.