From Shanghai to Seattle, the world’s cities are built on sand - massive amounts of sand. It’s in the cement and concrete that make the bulk of most buildings. The glass in those buildings’ windows...

Wovoka is the transparency and insights layer to the voluntary carbon offsets market. Our platform ingests project-level information from the 4 major offset registries in real time, merges it with...

Winemakers are some of the most seasoned climate scientists in the world. Agricultural techniques required for harvesting grapes accumulated over decades (sometimes centuries), coupled with precise...

The Arctic seascape plays an important role in North American trade and defense; however, in recent years, the Arctic has undergone radical changes, altering current shipping routes and opening up...

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....

This is a visual experiment showing the global surface temperature anomalies situation over the course of ~130 years. Baseline is defined as the 1971 - 2000 average in degrees Celsius. Positive...

Visualizing the most recent earthquakes to have struck the Philippines.

It’s easy to forget that wildlife extinctions are all around us. That’s why the Center for Biological Diversity created an immersive, interactive map that highlights an extinct species from all 50...

Tropical storms and hurricanes are one of the extreme climate events that have major impact on low latitudinal regions. These extreme events contribute significantly to the climate hazards in...

Climate change and its impact on the planet is a topic that can NOT be talked about too much. With this visualization, I wanted to draw attention to climate change through the story of Polar...

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...

This was a data-driven story created in collaboration with Birdlife International and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force. It portrays how the conservation of migratory birds, which travel...

This visualisation focuses on Africa, to highlight a positive light on the continents and showcases champions of renewable energy.

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...

In view of the public's weak awareness of protecting ethnic ancient books and lack of sufficient understanding of the important value and role of ethnic ancient books, the team tries to focus on...

An exploration of how Europe diversified its electricity generation in 2020

In New York City, currently around 2 million people commute in and out of the city by car every day; only 1% of these cars are currently electric. Hence, with the goal of achieving an electrified...

The war in Ukraine is different: The global public can follow the developments in real-time, unlike in past conflicts. Our interactive map is an attempt to map this new reality of war. The map...

A data visualization that presents the global distribution, across continents and countries, of minerals using the periodic table of elements. There is strong competition among producing...

This article written and researched by Elena Sanz, portrays the history and current context of the most expensive neighborhood in Madrid (Spain): The Salamanca neighborhood. Together, the editor...

The scale and destruction from Australia’s 2020 bushfire season were unprecedented, fuelled by a prolonged drought that left the Australia’s east coast tinder dry. The physical scale of 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...

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.

A digital version of the FAQ section of the Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis Repot. Published by the IPCC as part of its climate report 2021. I was commissioned to produce graphics...

A nutritional analysis of food and drinks available at Starbucks using D3.js and employing HTML/CSS to imple- ment the visualizations. The website presents a story that uses various data...

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...

This work presents the availability of water in the Portuguese basins (sets of dams). The map on the right indicates which regions hold the biggest volumes of water (Guadiana and Tejo). The...

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...

When 2020 Census data was released, FiveThirtyEight visual journalists Ryan Best and Elena Mejía used the new data to explore the extent of which racial segregation caused by redlining was still...

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...