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El Niño-driven heat wave threatens hundreds of thousands of deaths

Rank
Ran: 40h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 6
Regions: 4
Countries: 6
Languages: 3

DVB Myanmar · English 27 Sept, 23:02 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · +1 language

Read at DVB

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: DVB, 27 Sept, 23:02 UTC.
Second country: South Africa, with IOL.
Second region: Africa, with IOL.
Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
International 1 outlet · 16%

First movers

DVB 27 Sept, 23:02 UTC
IOL +4h 48m
AllAfrica +8h 1m
Syria TV +35h 45m
NZ Herald +40h 58m

Last to join

Der Standard 29 Sept, 19:00 UTC
NZ Herald 29 Sept, 16:00 UTC
Syria TV 29 Sept, 10:47 UTC
AllAfrica 28 Sept, 07:02 UTC
IOL 28 Sept, 03:50 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Heat from super El Niño could cause 450,000 extra deaths, 25 to 26 Sept 2026, 7 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 6 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Asia-Pacific 2: Myanmar, New Zealand. Europe 1: Austria. Middle East 1: Syria. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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: Arabic, German, English.
Timeline: Earliest article DVB, 27 Sept 2026, 23:02 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 02:10 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 19:00 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 International. 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: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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.
Chain: Continues Heat from super El Niño could cause 450,000 extra deaths. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

29 Sept 2026 244 5.25 6 6 3 3 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 02:10 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 19:00 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Covered by 6 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Europe 1 outlet

Middle East 1 outlet

International 1 outlet