The Map Scroll

Jeff Masters says , "one of the most remarkable weather events of my lifetime is unfolding this summer in Russia" where the curren...

The weather where I live - a large East Coast metropolis somewhere between Bridgeport, CT and Trenton, NJ - was notably warm last week, as i...

Via The Map Room and mapperz , here's another nice visualization of the calamity coming down the pike. The image on the left anticipat...

While bureaucrats from around the world are in Copenhagen haggling over an arcane agreement that may have profound effects on the state of t...

Fantastic. Just came across this at the atlas(t) blog. It's the mappiest TED talk ever: It's Parag Khanna , who has the very impor...

The British government recently came out with a new interactive map, posted by The Guardian here , that shows the likely impacts of global w...

Coming Anarchy imagines a future Europe where the continent's various semi-latent separatist movements have achieved their goals: The c...

More on global warming, this time from Conor Clarke , who links to William Cline's study Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimate...

A little while ago the New York Times' Andrew Revkin had a post about a study by David Pollard and Robert DeCanto that found that even ...

Ezra Klein points to a study on global warming (pdf) from the Lancet and University College London. As Ezra notes, one of the many complic...

Andrew C. Revkin talks about the need to use visualizations to make the rather abstract problems of global warming comprehensible. He links...

Yesterday, same-sex marriage in Iowa was rendered legal by that state's Supreme Court (two days after it was made legal in Sweden). The...

New Scientist maps the global warming apocalypse . The accompanying article , by the aptly named Gaia Vince, depicts a scenario in which Ear...