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...
Firefighters battled some of the largest fires in California’s history in 2020's fire season.
A fleet of specially equipped firefighting aircraft that can steer or contain a fire’s perimeter...
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...
An exploration into high altitude mountaineering.
This project takes two different approaches to visualise data on the highest peaks on earth – one digital, one analogue.
Drawing on data from...
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...
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...
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...
Where do the people with the lowest salaries live, and where the people with the highest? Zeit Online shows the development of the past 20 years for all municipalities.
Interactive visualisation that can be used to view average CO2 emissions of cities worldwide at a glance, as well as to dive into the data for a specific city – both its emissions and trends over...
Globally, climate change claims 150,000 lives per year. Gramener partnered with Evergreen under the Microsoft AI for Earth grant to curb climate change impact with a predictive urban planning tool....
Monitoring space junk is becoming more complicated as the number of errant items—and their risk of colliding—increases. Meanwhile, the stakes of doing this accurately are only getting higher with...
This data visualization gallery shows the sunrise and sunset times around the world. See how the night and daylight areas change during a two year period. To focus on the length of nights the y...
The visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. The viz shows the rain weather events across the United States. The data coverage is...
It’s very easy to become overwhelmed by the climate emergency, the numbers quoted in news reports are so immense and the steps needed to genuinely tackle it seem so overwhelming.
We wanted to...
The Shrinking Lakes cross-border investigation was reported by 12 journalists from the InfoNile network in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda over a year and a half. It contains original data...
This map crosses the natural protected areas in continental Portugal with the species richness, which is the number of species within a defined region, observed in different groups.
The data was...
A few years ago, my kids were taking very long showers. I wanted a way to explain to them how important water is and should be used sparingly but in a very simplified way that they could relate,...
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...
In the Netherlands there is a dataset available containing outlines of buildings and their (assumed) construction date. This animation shows how urban development sped up significantly after the...
Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
Guadiana in Four Movements is an audiovisual piece that interrogates the present and future of the transboundary River Guadiana estuary (Iberian Peninsula). Crafted with found footage, images and...
In 2020, walkability became an urgent necessity for people living in urban areas, due to the mobility standstill brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. Inspired by the renewed interest in...
With roots stretching back more than 100 years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proved to be one of the world's most intractable. Through animated maps, we explain how the political boundaries...
Palm oil production has been an important driver for the deforestation of the rainforests. But replacing the controversial raw material is difficult. If we weren’t meeting global oil demand through...
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...
The most famous train ever, a legend, an epic journey surrounded by a shade of mistery, glamour and the charm of the past golden times. How well do you know the Orient Express, its lines and the...
The choropleth map shows the mean Euclidian distance to roads for each of the 11.224 municipalities of Germany. The darker the color, the larger the average distance.
The visualization makes use...
The poster started with the idea that carbon dioxide is like a shadow on the earth. I produced the infographic in the hope that South Korea will achieve its 2030 reduction goal to drive out the...
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...