Environment maps
Maps depicting environmental degradation across planet.
Where the poor live longer
– On average, the life expectancy for a poor 40-year-old in Manhattan is 81.8 years. It is one of the
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What % of american households don’t have a toilet?
1.19% of households in the U.S. don’t have a flush toilet.
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Inspectors gave failing cleanliness grades to more than 370 miles of streets and alleys in Los Angeles, or about 4%
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For the first time, new USGS maps identify potential ground-shaking hazards from both human-induced and natural earthquakes. In the past,
Read more: USGS Earthquake Forecast Maps Now Include Human-Induced EarthquakesWhere is the lead exposure risk in your community?
In some of America’s oldest and largest urban areas, places like New York and Chicago, one in five census tracts
Read more: Where is the lead exposure risk in your community?Using clouds to locate threatened species
The world map (top right) is coloured according to month of peak cloudiness (top left). Areas of little seasonality are
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Visualization of noise pollution for the entire world based on top of OSM data. Search for your city and check
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Almost half of the world’s workers – 1.5 billion people – work in water-related sectors. The agricultural industry directly creates
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Arctic permafrost
Source: NASA
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