Sources and image credits

ChartGlow social posts, October 20–25, 2026. Each source entry identifies the period and unit shown. Background photos are illustrative assets and are not evidence for the chart values.

A supermarket snack aisle, used as an illustrative CPI background

CPI • CC0
Alanthebox, Potato Chip Aisle, CC0 1.0. Illustrative grocery-aisle scene; not BLS imagery.

Electric cars at charging points in Wadebridge

EV • CC BY 4.0
Mutney, Wadebridge charging point (15 Aug 2026), CC BY 4.0. Specific cars and location; no endorsement implied.

A stack of historical Apple phones and tablets

Apple devices • CC0
Gabriel Freytez, Apple Devices, 25 January 2017, CC0 1.0. Historical devices, not iPhone Duo or current models. Scaled and positioned in the native chart; no AI image.

Empty indoor running track

Sport • CC BY 4.0
Petewarrior, Brillia Running Stadium track, CC BY 4.0. Empty 60 m indoor training track; not a record-race venue.

Solar thermal installation in a landscape

Renewables • CC BY 4.0
Kerry Raymond, Windorah Solar Farm, 2019, CC BY 4.0. Solar thermal site; not identified in IRENA’s capacity data.

Sunlit Earth photographed by NASA’s EPIC camera

Climate • NASA public domain
NASA/DSCOVR EPIC, Earth image, 6 July 2015. NASA public domain in the U.S.; credit recommended per NASA image-use guidance. Illustrative Earth image, not a climate-data graphic.

October 20 — U.S. consumer prices

Chart: four seasonally adjusted month-to-month CPI category changes, March–September 2026. September values: gasoline +9.1%, food at home −0.1%, electricity +0.2%, shelter +0.4%. These categories are not an exhaustive consumer basket. The BLS report was released October 14; the chart does not show the annual headline inflation rate.

October 21 — EU battery-electric cars

Chart: annual new passenger-car registrations of battery-electric vehicles in the EU27, 2013–2025, number of registrations. It excludes plug-in hybrids; the annual series has no 2026 value. 2025: 1,888,016; 2013: 22,066. Values come from Eurostat’s road_eqr_carpda table.

The chart’s EU flag marker is served from FlagCDN, Flagpedia’s CDN. Flagpedia states that its flag images are public domain and free for commercial and non-commercial use, and that the images are based on Wikimedia Commons vectors; see its download/CDN terms and Terms of Use. The EU’s official emblem guidance permits third-party use provided it does not imply a connection, support, sponsorship or approval that does not exist. Here the flag is only a region marker; it does not indicate EU sponsorship.

October 22 — Apple net sales mix

Chart: Apple’s annual net sales by five reported categories in fiscal years 2021–2025, nominal USD billions; not profit or units. FY2023 covered 53 weeks; other years in the comparison covered 52. Category definitions/assortment can evolve. Apple’s October 15 iPhone Duo update is news context only; the chart ends in FY2025 and implies no launch effect.

The five pictograms are simple original ChartGlow graphics. The photo shows historical Apple devices from 2017; it does not depict a product in the 2026 release.

October 23 — men’s half-marathon marks

Chart: selected record marks shown as “Seconds saved” against the 57:30 baseline by Yomif Kejelcha in Valencia on 27 October 2024 (ratified): seconds saved = 3,450 − recorded time in seconds. The three observations are 0 seconds (57:30, Valencia, 27 Oct 2024; ratified), 10 seconds (57:20, Lisbon, 8 Mar 2026; ratification pending in the World Athletics report), and 39 seconds (56:51, Buenos Aires, 23 Aug 2026; pending in the report). Only these three observed marks are plotted; no intermediate records are added. Any in-between animation/interpolation is visual movement only, not evidence of records at those times. Raw times, dates, venues and ratification status remain in the source data. This is not the complete record history.

The timer emoji used as the chart icon is Twemoji, licensed CC BY 4.0. It is a symbol, not event photography.

October 24 — renewable power capacity

Chart: year-end installed power capacity for four IRENA technology groups (renewable hydropower, solar, wind and bioenergy), 2015–2025, GW. This is capacity, not electricity generation; geothermal and marine are excluded, so the four categories are not the complete renewable total. No projection values are included.

IRENA identifies its source publication as Renewable Energy Statistics 2026. The October WETO is contextual news only; its scenario values are not plotted. The solar photo is illustrative and not an asset in the IRENA dataset.

October 25 — September global temperature

Chart: September global ERA5 surface-air-temperature anomalies, 1980–2026, °C relative to 1850–1900. September 1980: +0.4429°C; September 2026: +1.6340°C. Copernicus reported September 2026 as the second warmest September in ERA5. One monthly value above 1.5°C is not the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature-limit assessment.

Earth image credit: NASA/DSCOVR EPIC, 6 July 2015; public domain in the U.S. The image shows the sunlit Earth, not temperature anomalies or the 2026 climate.

Illustration icon credits

Where category symbols are used in the CPI, sport or climate chart, they are Twemoji graphics, CC BY 4.0: gasoline pump, shopping cart, light bulb, house, stopwatch and globe (as applicable). Credit: “Twemoji contributors / CC BY 4.0.” See the license. Icons are resized as series markers; their artwork is unchanged. These icons represent categories; they are not BLS photos or race images. Apple’s five chart pictograms and IRENA’s technology pictograms are original geometric graphics made for ChartGlow.

Credit rule for each photo: keep the named creator, Commons item-page link, and license link with the post or its source page. For these videos, the photos are resized, positioned and shown with adjusted opacity; framing may crop their edges. No AI image generation was used. Do not imply endorsement by Apple, a vehicle maker, Co-op, Instavolt, IRENA, NASA, or the depicted facilities.