EVIDENCE DASHBOARD / THREE-PLACE PILOT
Harm &
Attention.
Humanitarian need. Media coverage. Environmental damage.
Three independent measures. No single suffering score.
01 / COMPARE THE EVIDENCE
Read across. Keep the measures apart.
Humanitarian need Estimated people requiring assistance, in millions. Not deaths or a measure of individual severity.
Media coverage Historical articles per day in one English-language study. Not current attention, audience reach or reporting quality.
Environmental damage One documented indicator per place. Different units and footprints; no shared damage scale.
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02 / ASK A BETTER QUESTION
Which places merit a closer look?
Adjust these editorial screening thresholds. A candidate must meet both thresholds and have a sourced environmental indicator. These cutoffs are choices, not validated scientific boundaries. National totals also tend to favor populous places.
Environmental indicator availability is an evidence requirement, not a claim that all observed damage is equally severe. No environmental magnitude threshold is applied because the units are incompatible.
03 / KNOW WHAT IS MISSING
The gaps stay visible.
Places with sources for each of the three indicators.
Places with a verified monthly media series in this pilot.
Sustained low coverage—for every place, regardless of screening result.
How the media baseline was measured
MJRC’s August 2025 study analyzed 78,667 articles across ten crises, using keyword searches, deduplication and relevance screening. This pilot uses its reported daily averages for three crises. The selected English-language corpus is not all world media.
Each average uses a crisis-specific start date and last-article endpoint. These are not common observation windows. A low historical average cannot establish low current coverage, or show whether coverage was sustained. Read the study, chart on printed page 7 and methodology appendix ↗
What a sustained-coverage assessment still needs
A common, recent observation window; reproducible search queries; deduplicated monthly counts; a stable outlet and language panel; and the total number of articles available in each period. Missing collection periods must remain missing, not become zero.
Coverage intensity and persistence should be reported separately, with sensitivity checks across languages and outlets. A live media-data request failed during preparation; no live feed or automatic refresh is claimed here.
How to interpret need and environmental findings
Humanitarian need is a planning estimate, distinct from the number targeted for aid. Definitions and access constraints vary. A national count and a local environmental case do not describe the same population or footprint.
The environmental column documents forest loss, cropland damage or historical inundation. None alone establishes chemical contamination, human exposure or the total harm caused by a conflict. An unmeasured location must never be treated as undamaged.
Reviewed 1 November 2026 · Manually curated pilot · Not an exhaustive conflict inventory. Source publication dates are separate from observation dates. Suggest a source or correction →