Drawdown is the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. This is the point when we begin the process of stopping further...
It often seems we're having two conversations about climate change, one about the science, and one about the politics — with the audience left trying to join the dots between the two. This story...
This visualization was created as part of the Viz4ClimateAction initiative hosted by Tableau and TheSDGVizProject. It features 4 different visuals that walk users through the story of climate...
The Global Innovation Index provides an innovation ranking for 130 economies. It is a leading reference for innovation and a tool for action for most economies.
The UAE ranked 33rd in 2021’s...
The oceans are full of rubbish: around ten
million tons of plastic flood the world's oceans every year. Single-use plastic is mass-produced but rarely recycled. The structures for collecting and...
The embattled Old City of Jerusalem has grown over the centuries into an architectural patchwork reflecting the styles, beliefs, and priorities of conquerors past. The rulers who rebuilt or...
Vortex View is a public app for browsing, visualizing and downloading tropical cyclone imagery from the NOAA GOES-16 satellite mesoscale dataset. GOES-16 mesoscales are moveable satellite regions...
The Arctic's dwindling sea ice is one of the most visible signs of climate change. In this story, we follow three scientists on a year-long expedition to the Arctic as they try to unravel what is...
Modum is a series of large format canvases that explore the rhythm of commercial activity. By plotting scraped business location data, a new kind of data landscape is created: a self portrait of a...
In an irregular and fragmented division, species habitats that are destroyed as roads are developed. Use color to distinguish species, so that the distribution of road killing species in various...
The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano may be one of the largest recorded in such detail. The blast was visible from space, with images of the massive ash plume going viral...
This website renders every single road within a city. It uses OpenStreetMap public data and allows users to view roads of nearly all cities of the world, and if they so desire export them into SVG...
This data visualization explores the age of buildings in New York City by decade, from the early 1800s until the 2020s.
It uses geospatial data, tracing the blueprints of every building in NYC....
Weather is a topic that often comes up in casual conversation, and in an international world of many backgrounds, I have been increasingly interested in the weather and length of the day, which is...
The Climate Orb project is an awareness campaign that aims to use data aesthetics to spread awareness about Climate Change and its causes and consequences.
This project explores data aesthetics as...
A series of maps showing counties in the US that have more livestock than residents. The main map shows counties that have more cows, pigs, and/or chickens than residents, using a fun Venn diagram...
Nearly 27% of the Netherlands is below sea level with a vast network of polders and dykes keeping the North Sea at bay. Where the cyan and magenta shapes meet it reveals this immense area of land...
Road killings in Taiwan are becoming more and more severe, with gray in the background to indicate "roads", and red gradients for species extinction to show the spread of blood, like only...
One of a series of posters for the World Energy Council depicting 'Humanising Energy', looking at the evolution of energy (how we use it, the ecological responsibilities) from 1920 to the present.
The second London Greenground Map is extended version of the first map published as an independent project in the spring of 2019 to inspire people walk and cycle through green spaces and along the...
Layers of Bangladesh is a three dimensional artefact enabling an interactive exploration of data relating to climate change in Bangladesh. It takes as a reference point web-based data...
This is a collection of notebooks about drawing and animating ‘waterlines’—an old technique for showing water in maps—in JavaScript. The notebooks walk through different approaches in code, connect...
Coastal cities need billions of dollars to build defenses against sea level rise. Tensions are growing over where that funding will come from: taxpayers or private companies with waterfront...
Regional Weather Myths explores several questions:
Are our summers getting warmer and drier? Do real summers and winters even exist anymore? Are floods on the agenda in the region?
It all started...
Global climate change is here. Each year, countries met for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to discuss ways to adapt to the current climate reality while mitigating climate change. In November...
Often, road names have common suffixes or prefixes. The map illustrates the occurrence of popular road name types encoded by color.
The resulting colorful network reveals some interesting...
Ever noticed what’s outside a classroom window? Schools in Austin can apply for City of Austin grants for school-based projects that could include up to eight environmental areas. These areas...
Protected natural areas of land and water in the UK and Ireland.
This includes areas protected by international, European and national laws.
Even on our crowded islands, we can provide...
The project was done in partnership with Open Development Mekong to draw attention to pressing developments of the region that will ultimately affect the most disadvantaged. It also attempts to...
Ocean acidification is a significant impact caused by ongoing climate change. The ongoing decrease in the pH value of seawater has negatively affected the ecosystems.
The interactive...