The pandemic has reshaped our jobs, how we travel, and what a recovery looks like. As Covid-19 catalyzes an avalanche of new and urgent data — economic, social, epidemiological — so a number of chart shapes seem to be defining this scared new world, including the “ominous escalator” of pandemic deaths and the “green shoots” of tentative ...

The bad news: Pollution levels are increasing. The good news: That means economic activity is, too. Levels of nitrogen dioxide being released into the atmosphere have become a useful marker for the fall and rise of industrial, business and civic activities as countries across the globe impose and relax lockdowns due to the spread of ...