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Brazil sues Shell for $108m over deadly 2024 floods

Rank
Running
33h
Updated
25h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
3
Countries
5
Languages
4

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 10 Oct, 00:10 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Dansk (2) · Deutsch (1) · Français (1) · +2 languages

Read at Free Malaysia Today

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 34 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Free Malaysia Today, 10 Oct, 00:10 UTC.
  2. Second country: France, with Le Monde.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Le Monde.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 10 Oct, 00:10 UTC.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

35 of 35 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

29%57%14%

  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 1 country · 29%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 57%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. Free Malaysia Today 10 Oct, 00:10 UTC
  2. Le Monde +39m
  3. Berlingske +1h 12m
  4. Malay Mail +3h 59m
  5. Politiken +5h 14m

Latest arrivals

  1. Gulf News 10 Oct, 08:47 UTC
  2. n-tv 10 Oct, 08:05 UTC
  3. Politiken 10 Oct, 05:24 UTC
  4. Malay Mail 10 Oct, 04:09 UTC
  5. Berlingske 10 Oct, 01:21 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 3: Denmark, France, Germany. Middle East 1: United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Danish, German, English, French.
Timeline
Earliest article Free Malaysia Today, 10 Oct 2026, 00:10 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 01:20 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 08:47 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, Brazil. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.17, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
10 Oct 2026 169 3.72 7 5 7 5 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 01:20 UTC · Updated 08:47 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates 10 Oct, 08:47 UTC
    Brazil sues Shell for $108m over deadly 2024 floods linked to climate change
  • n-tv Germany 10 Oct, 08:05 UTC
    Mitschuldig an Erderwärmung?: Brasiliens Staatsanwaltschaft verklagt Shell wegen Flutkatastrophe
  • Politiken Denmark 10 Oct, 05:24 UTC
    Brasilien sagsøger Shell for dødelige oversvømmelser i 2024
  • Malay Mail Malaysia 10 Oct, 04:09 UTC
    Brazil prosecutors sue Shell for US$108m over deadly 2024 floods
  • Berlingske Denmark 10 Oct, 01:21 UTC
    Brasilien sagsøger Shell for dødelige oversvømmelser i 2024
  • Le Monde France 10 Oct, 00:49 UTC
    Le parquet brésilien poursuit Shell en justice, invoquant une responsabilité climatique dans les inondations meurtrières de 2024
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 10 Oct, 00:10 UTC
    Brazil sues Shell for US$108mil over deadly 2024 floods
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