environment

Houston flooding on the rise

Maps / climate change, environment, flood, ProPublica

Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…
Finding the wet princes of Bel Air

Statistics / drought, environment, satellite

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

Maps / environment, Mississippi, NASA

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

Maps / environment, New York Times, temperature, Tim Wallace

It keeps getting hotter on this planet, and the oceans are absorbing most…
xkcd: Earth temperature timeline

Infographics / environment, temperature, xkcd

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

Maps / environment, migration

The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…
Changing river path seen through satellite images

Maps / environment, river, satellite

Sedimentary geologist Zoltan Sylvester downloaded Landsat data using Earth Explorer and strung together…
How much warmer your city was in 2015

Statistical Visualization / environment, New York Times, temperature

It was hotter in 2015 than any other year ever. K. K. Rebecca…
Social network of Earth’s plants and animals

Network Visualization / environment, nature, video

Plants and animals interact with each other to stay alive, which in turn…
Blueprint for a carbon-free world

Statistical Visualization / environment, National Geographic

Getting to 100 percent renewable energy seems like such a far away goal…
Plant life cycle shows a breathing Earth

Maps / environment, NASA

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

Maps / environment, Greenland, New York Times

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

Maps / atmosphere, environment

Gavin Schmidt shows different types of particles that swirl around in our atmosphere:…
Way more trees than previously thought, new estimates show

Maps / environment, nature, trees

There are a lot of trees on this planet.
Traded animals

Infographics / animals, environment, Fathom, trading

Based on data from the CITES Trade Database, “more than 27 million animals…
Illegal to collect environmental data in Wyoming

Data Sharing / environment, law, Wyoming

Wyoming just passed a law that makes it illegal to collect data about…
Life cycle of Earth’s carbon dioxide

Maps / environment, NASA

The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…
Map of global carbon emissions

Maps / environment, Washington Post

Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…
Wearable data objects that represent air pollution

Data Art / environment, physical

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

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, environment, temperature, time series, weather

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

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