The Ask: In late 2022, the Yahoo News Visuals team was approached by a sr. news editor covering the ongoing climate crisis. He’d written a series of stories breaking the U.S. into 7 regions, and then detailing projections for climate change around each one, over the next 50 years. We were approached about creating something more unique and elevated than the current article hub, which was essentially a banner ad with some links below it. With our art department only a few months old, it was a fantastic opportunity to show what we were capable of across multiple channels and disciplines, combining UI/UX savvy with evocative animations, and rich data visualization to round out the story, driving home just how extreme and imminent a threat the crisis presents. Though company-wide product limitations did curtail some of our more ambitious plans, the team delivered not just typically top-notch creative, but some innovative product work arounds as well.