• The “Yellow Vests” protests show how globalization and its inequities have led to a crisis of mobility — geographic, economic and social — in France.

• Here’s a snapshot of global markets.

The Year in News

Our Year in Pictures takes you around the world, month by month.

Our list of most-read stories provides another kind of map of the major themes of the year.

Below are some of the story lines your Morning Briefing has followed — and will be following — most closely.

• Climate change: Wildfires, hurricanes, drenching rains — as in India, above — and drought ravaged communities around the world. Temperatures reached new highs (check the change in your own area). Arctic ice melted more rapidly than ever. Will nations follow through on a global climate framework agreed upon in Poland?

• Trade: The U.S. and China, two of the world’s largest economies, spent the year engaged in a tit-for-tat trade war. The global economy appears to be slowing down, and rising U.S. interest rates are worrying markets.

• Privacy: A Times investigation revealed that a consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, used private Facebook data to help President Trump’s campaign, raising alarming questions about Silicon Valley’s privacy practices. Months later, we found that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it had disclosed. And we learned that location data pulled from your phone apps is more personal (and public) than companies say it is.