The Map Scroll

Vision of Humanity is out with their 2010 Global Peace Index , a rating of the "state of peace" in 249 nations around the world: ...

Via Boing Boing and The New Yorker , a map animation that shows every detonation of a nuclear bomb until 1998, by Japanese artist Isao Hash...

June 2010 was the hottest June on record, 1.22°F above average. So was the period of April-June, 1.26°F above average. And January through J...

A provocative series of maps from Esquire's politics blog depicts the countries of the world according to a couple of controversial pol...

Yet another entrant in the genre of happiness cartography , this time courtesy of Gallup : The survey of 155 countries describes respondents...

The NY Times has an interactive map of Olympic medals won by country: This represents medals won in the Vancouver Olympics thus far. You...

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

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...

Nate Silver has a map based on data from Google Flu Trends that shows the timeline of the spread of swine flu around the US: Google Flu T...

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

The Center for Global Development has a tool that ranks rich countries' commitment to the developing world . This Commitment to Developm...

Tired of the staid monotony that is life in the 21st Century? Feel like there just aren't enough calamities in the day? Crave the delici...

David Strahan, the journalist and author of the peak oil tome The Last Oil Shock , has an interactive Oil Depletion Atlas : You can roll ove...

Another map from that Jeff Masters post confirms something I had strongly suspected: Texas was hot in June! But then, so was the Southeast,...

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

Via New Scientist , the most detailed and complete topographical map of the world ever produced has been created with data from NASA's T...

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

Vision of Humanity has updated their Global Peace Index for 2009. The results: Says Vision of Humanity: The results of the Global Peace I...

Happy solstice, everybody! Before you head out to jump your bonfires and search for your magic fern blossoms , you may want to check to see...

The World Trade Organization is up with a map of trade disputes among its members: Blue lines represent complaints about other countries, r...