They are the foundation of life on Earth, providing food, medicine, building materials and clean air but across the world, plant species are disappearing fast.
The world contains around 423,000...
The island of Hawaii (also known as Hawaii's "Big Island") is made of five volcanoes. This map visualizes these volcanoes in a simple, straightforward, and stylized way — the volcanic peak (center...
This visualization represents the correlations between the 10 key factors in the smart city rankings published by Eden Strategy Institute in their Top 50 Smart City Government Ranking 2020/2021...
Trading the Fragile: An Insight into the CITES and IUCN databases is a data-driven project aiming to shed light on the work of these two organizations. By highlighting the most traded species...
Australia is home to an incredibly diverse range of native plant species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world due to the continent's isolation and unique ecosystems.
The exact...
In the US alone, we throw away 400 million paper coffee cups a day. That’s the equivalent of the volume of 13 Empire State Buildings of waste.
In response to this staggering issue of waste, I...
Is it spring yet? New green plant growth is one of the first indicators of spring and the end of cold winter months. To celebrate the changing seasons in the United States, the United States...
The project comprises a publicly accessible, interactive webmap, aimed to communicate the rise and fall of London’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) temporally over the course of the 2 year COVID...
With Climate Change, my country Portugal has been witnessing a drastic worsening of its water supply. Severe droughts have been decimating up to 90% of the territory over the past years. Besides...
The blossoming of cherry blossoms, often seen as a sign of spring, is also the witness to global warming. Decades of global warming brought not only visible changes like melting glaciers to Earth...
In an increasingly worrisome scenario of unprecedented and extreme climate events, it is crucial to understand what causes and impacts humans and other factors have on the climate and health of our...
From the 1930s to 1967, the federal government undertook a comprehensive effort to map perceived lending risk in neighborhoods of more than 230 cities across the US. This practice became known as...
The ever-increasing pollution and the climatic emergency are increasingly relevant phenomena in the current situation of our planet. In this sense, it is important to understand which realities...
The Flood necklace is a data sculpture made of ceramics, with clay from the Loire River valley. It embeds the water heights of all registered floods in the city of Orléans (France) since 1800. This...
When it comes to sand mining, the Singapore government is often closed to scrutiny. As a result, it is often cast as a villain, guzzling sand from its neighbours while it grows bigger through...
The future is here: text-to-image AI is now a reality, enabling us to create images from simple text descriptions. Technologies like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are rapidly spreading and becoming...
the placement of cctv cameras in the college campus and how many cases are solved through it. Data of solved, unsolved and total cases as well as the types of camera used in the campus and their...
I have created an infographic designed for the primary audience of head staff members who navigate their Excel spreadsheets to assign rooms to new employees at the university. This visual aid aims...
This visual article presents an analysis of how three Spanish cities, Madrid, Bilbao, and Valencia, have changed in relation to their rivers. Despite rivers always being vital for cities and their...
“World Heritage in Danger 2023” is an information design and data visualization project with an aim to raise awareness of decaying beauty in our world with a skeptical overtone.
The data...
The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus Index is a national-level composite indicator founded on 21 relevant indicators. This website provides a user-friendly visualisation of the index and an entry...
This project uses an interactive 3D globe with over 1,000 relatively evenly distributed points over Earth's landmasses to tell the story of climate change. You can animate each point's temperature...
Since the nuclear accident caused by a powerful earthquake in 2011, Japan has been storing a huge amount of contaminated wastewater in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Now that it almost...
Birds start singing in the early morning. What can be heard in the morning reveals a lot about the human impact on nature and biodiversity. This article explains how human activity has impacted the...
“Breaking point” is a multimedia story that provides an in-depth, data-driven look at the global shipbreaking industry. Drawing on thousands of manually compiled records, interviews, and firsthand...
More frequent and intense extreme heat is one of the major impacts of climate change.
To assess how the incidence of extreme heat has changed over time, Carbon Brief examined which regions...
Curbing global warming, halting the loss of biodiversity, and building a just and equitable economy are among the world’s most pressing needs. To track progress and reveal systemic obstacles to...