The Map Scroll

This video paints a dismaying picture: Via Mother Jones , which says: The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) just released thi...

Thither , according to an oceanologist from the University of South Florida College of Marine Science Ocean Circulation Group , which has mo...

Proving that you don't have to have centralized government control of your economy to wreak environmental havoc, that oil rig that blew...

The Aral Sea is just... about... Gone. Another image of the sea from March 2010: From the Huffington Post : The drying up of the Aral Sea is...

The New York Times has another one of their ridiculously information-rich maps which shows all of the 200,000+ facilities around the US tha...

Not long ago, I did a post about the Happy Planet Index , a quantification of 'ecological efficiency' from the New Economics Foundat...

As promised, here's more on the Happy Planet Index. This is from their map of Europe (note that it uses a different scale than the worl...

The New Economics Foundation has come up with something called the Happy Planet Index that categorizes countries based on their relative ...

Via The Map Room , The New York Times maps organic farms in the US . For comparison, the Times also has a map showing the locations of all f...

The Natural Resources Defense Council has a new ugly map of green energy potential in the United States. In the map layer shown above, dark...

The Natural Resources Defense Council has worked with Google to create a Google Earth mapping tool which shows environmentally sensitive ar...

All right, so that last post was a bit of a downer. Here's some news of a more upbeat nature, from Science Blogs : we've saved the o...

An incredible map animation of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States: The Purdue U. researchers who put this together are also worki...

Well, the US House's economic stimulus plan is out . I was hoping for a big investment in mass transit and rail to finally get the US mo...

Here's another human footprint map. This one's of Africa : The level of detail on this National Geographic map is really astonishi...