As you may or may not know, climate change could bring with it…
environment
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Flooding risk cartogram
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Mapping plastic in the ocean
In research efforts to understand marine debris, Andres Cozar Cabañas et al recently…
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Real-time lightning map
Blitzortung is a community of volunteers who install inexpensive lightning sensors and transmit…
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Personal smart garden system tracks soil and water conditions
Edyn, a new project on Kickstarter, aims to make gardening easier by tracking…
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Near-real-time global forest watch
Global Forest Watch uses satellite imagery and other technologies to estimate forest usage,…
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Earth wind map
Remember the wind map of the United States by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda…
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What Antarctica looks like underneath the ice
Based largely on satellite data and the results of an airborne data collection…
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Climate change described visually
A video from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme explains global warming and projected changes…
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Global forest change
Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. produced high-resolution maps of global forestry to…
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Estimated coastlines if the ice melted
National Geographic imagined new coastlines (and the cities that would go under) if…
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Physical installation shows actual wind patterns
Artist Charles Sowers specializes in public art works and display of physical phenomena.…
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A high resolution tour of the vegetation on Earth
NOAA visualized global vegetation over a year, and the result is beautiful:
We’ve…
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Hans Rosling explains population growth and climate change
Because every day is a good day to listen to Hans Rosling talk…
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Glowing landscape shows river history
The poster by Daniel E. Coe shows the life-like historical flows of the…
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Global temperature rises over past century
New Scientist mapped global temperature change based on a NASA GISTEMP analysis.
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State of polar bear populations →
There are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world, and…
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Soundscapes of city pollution
Aaron Rueben and Gabriel Isaacman used data from sampling air in tunnels, where…
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Tracing the paths of humpback whales
For the past ten years, researchers have been tagging hump back whales in…
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A year of global cloud coverage →
Jonathan Corum for the New York Times mapped cloud coverage from April 2011…
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The U.K. energy consumption guide
I’m a sucker for anything cute and bubbly, and the U.K. Energy Consumption…