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...

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

Andrew Sullivan links to a map from the 2009 Human Development Report , which uses HDI, the Human Development Index, as a measure of the ge...

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...

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

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

Listen, I know it may be tough to keep up with my blistering blogging pace of late, but just bear with me... Here I give you a map of everyt...

An interesting interactive migration map from Forbes shows net migration for 2008 for every county in the US: You can see migration to a gi...

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

Jungle. Ancient civilization. Lasers. Cool : Says the NY Times : A small aircraft flying back and forth above the ancient Maya city of Carac...

So they went ahead and had those elections in the UK, as you may have heard. The result was a major victory for primary colors, as this Wik...

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 BBC has an election seat calculator for the upcoming UK elections: I will say this: UK electoral democracy appears to be pretty messed ...

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...

Via The Map Room , NASA's Earth Observatory posts some nice images of cities at night. E.g.: From le text: Border cities like Ciudad Ju...

No, not the decently high quality yet reasonably priced used clothing store on Westheimer Road in Houston, TX. Why would you think I'm ...