Welcome to the Disappearing West
Every two and a half minutes, a football field’s worth of open, natural area in the western United States disappears
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Maps depicting environmental degradation across planet.
US nuclear targets mapped
Major targets for nuclear bombs in the Soviet Union, part of planning a nuclear attack on the USSR (September 1945)
Read more: US nuclear targets mappedGlobal 1-km Cloud Cover
The datasets integrate 15 years of twice-daily remote sensing-derived cloud observations at 1-km resolution. For additional information about the integration
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Mapping land use scenarios
The Integrated Climate and Land use Scenarios (ICLUS) outputs are derived from a pair of models. A demographic model generates
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Read more: Land use mapsSoundscore: find out how loud your new neighborhood will be before you move in
A Soundscore rating aggregates environmental noise caused by vehicle traffic, airplane traffic and local sources. A Soundscore rating is a
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An incredible visualisation of global shipping traffic
What can I see? You can see movements of the global merchant fleet over the course of 2012, overlaid on
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The stunning spread of the opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic
Every day in America, more than 50 people die from an overdose of prescription pain medication. Some people who start
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