environment

Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…

In case you didn’t know, there’s a drought here in California so there…

Horace Mitchell for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio mapped the massive drainage basin that…

It keeps getting hotter on this planet, and the oceans are absorbing most…

In classic xkcd-fashion, Randall Munroe timelines the Earth’s temperature, dating back to 20,000…

The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…

Sedimentary geologist Zoltan Sylvester downloaded Landsat data using Earth Explorer and strung together…

It was hotter in 2015 than any other year ever. K. K. Rebecca…

Plants and animals interact with each other to stay alive, which in turn…

Getting to 100 percent renewable energy seems like such a far away goal…

NASA mapped the annual cycle of all plant life on the planet in…

This map-centric piece from the New York Times is good. They keep refining…

Gavin Schmidt shows different types of particles that swirl around in our atmosphere:…

There are a lot of trees on this planet.

Based on data from the CITES Trade Database, “more than 27 million animals…

Wyoming just passed a law that makes it illegal to collect data about…

The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…

Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…

For the most part, air pollution is invisible, so Stefanie Posavec and Miriam…

When you look at overall global temperatures over time, you see a rising…