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...

While Canada is well-known for its winters, it is also home to deadly urban heat waves. But where are the areas most affected by extreme heat? And who lives in them? Answering these simple...

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...

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...

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...

We experience it daily but how can weather patterns be interpreted visually? This visual chart is an illustrated retrospective. It highlights the regular rainfall and fluctuating heat over one...

This infographic was completed in spring of 2022, it required transforming data and facts into visualization to make information more available to larger audiences. I applied design solutions...

Decline is a crochet representation of the estimated wild tiger population. The shoulder stripe is a baseline estimate from 1900, and the back stripes is the estimated population at 5 year...

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...

Back in the 1970s, activist Jane Jacobs theorized urban vitality and found that there are four conditions required for the promotion of life in cities: diversity of land use, small block sizes,...

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...

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...

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...

This radial visualization highlights some of the increasingly extreme weather conditions occurring in Portland, OR. In particular, the winter of 2016 brought some treacherously icy conditions and...

Soil data is sampled at point locations (e.g. machine drill, excavation). For each location numerous attributes are recorded and often samples taken that are analyzed for a multitude of properties...

This visualization explores the growth in Las Vegas hotel room inventory, from 1970 to 2018. It highlights notable hotels which have opened and closed during that time, and how they in turn...

This visualization shows the changes in energy consumption for 60 countries over a 50 year period. Each chart shows not only how total energy consumption has changed over that time, but also how...

Road kills often occur at night when vision is less clear.I imagined the desperate eyes of animals lying on the road after being hit by a car.Design with the shape of the pupil.Pupils shrink when...

Dubai is known to be home to several expats who come here to make their livelihoods. While looking at a country's attractiveness and in order to make decisions to move and/or settle in a place, a...

At Wedodata, our job is to tell stories with data. And we are particularly sensitive to those of our world engaged in a singular period, between collapse and reinvention. So when we saw a new kind...

An immersive exhibition focussing on the use data as a creative medium to tell stories about people & place. Our brief was to design an immersive permanent exhibition space that uses data to...

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...

For background color, I chose "red, black, white", which describe "blood, death, angel respectively. Then, the red line in the top of the picture looks like the flow of blood. Most importantly, the...

Oil spills are an environmental disaster, with more than 1,700 oil spills occurring between the 20th and 21st centuries, spilling more than 5.7 million tons of oil into the sea.The impact of the...

This 4 in 1 journalism, designed in 2020 and launched in 2021, reflects the severe situation of global plastic pollution in the past 10 years since 2010 and gives its prediction by 2025 based on...

What are satellites used for, who owns them and where do they orbit the Earth? Satellite Explorer is a web application that answers these questions by providing a visualization of the active...

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...

We scraped satellite data showing how the drought impacting Australia’s east coast in 2019-20 was affecting water storage in what was then one of the driest, hottest years on record. In addition,...

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...