ALT A small multiples graphic made of six US states cartograms, each showing the states affected by natural disasters with more than $1 billion in damages, 2019–2024. The six types of disasters were: Hurricane (states affected colored in green): mostly in the East Coast and South, from Texas to Massachusetts). Drought (orange yellow): All of Western US, from California to Tennessee and Kentucky. Flooding (baby blue): California, Arizona, all of the Mississippi basin from the Dakotas to Louisiana, Texas; Also N.Y., Vermont and Connecticut. Severe storm (lavender): All of the continental US states, except for Montana and west of it, and Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine. Wildfire (red): All of Western US from Colorado, plus Texas. Also includes Hawaii and Alaska. Winter storm (gray): All of the continental US states, except for Florida, the five Great American West states and the four of the five southwestern US states (Nevada was affected but not other four).

ALT A map of the US East Coast from Houston to Boston, showing major ports with a circle and arrow pointing to them. The circles are sized by the total of all containerized trade value in October 2023. The largest is New York–New Jersey, with the figure $17.8B adjoined to it. The next larger circles are Houston, Savannah, Norfolk and Charleston, around $10B. The next tier is Miami–Everglades, Baltimore, Philadelphia–Wilmington, around $4-5B. There’s a half-dozen smaller ports annotated.

ALT A map of countries on the southern side of the Sahara Desert highlighted, with their acute food insecurity near-term projections for August 2024 to January 2025 colored in patches on the map. Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroun are shown. Most of Cameroun and the southwest of Mali are the only parts with “minimal” acute food insecurity. All of the other countries are mainly stressed, with northern Chad and Nigeria in crisis. Small patches of the border areas between Chad and Nigeria, and the southeast of Mali, are in “emergency”.