For the last several years I’ve been showing Annie Leonard’s “The Story of Stuff” whenever I teach climate science to my students. I find it is interesting for them to think about where our “stuff” ...

The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) and Ukrainska Pravda have created an interactive world map which shows the locations and times of events to be held on 24 February 2024 to mark the second ...

A few months ago, John Keefe wrote a Poynter.org How To about using shapefiles. The power of the shapefile, he wrote, is the ability to refer to regions instead of points. But what if your data has ...

R has some excellent mapping options. There is the leaflet R package, which I use when I want to do a lot of customization. There is tmap, which I like for its nice balance between power and ease of ...

You’re wandering in the woods, looking for a secret that environmental clues have indicated is in the area. You pull out your map. It is unhelpfully vague, includes no topographical features, and you ...

A map from the University of Illinois at Chicago allows you to see if pollution is nearby. Chicago Public Schools students in predominantly Latino communities are being disproportionately impacted by ...

A research team led by UC San Diego has created an interactive map of preterm births - births before 37 weeks of gestation - and potential environmental and social drivers across Fresno County in ...

UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute launched an interactive map of California on March 28 displaying consolidated information on coronavirus cases and other community factors. Created by ...