» The New Multi-Player Geo-Guessing Game!
25/10/25 08:54 from Google Maps Mania
Introducing GeoBoxLast year, I collaborated with TripGeo to release Backdrop, a geo-guessing art game that challenges players to identify the real-world locations depicted in famous works of art. Backdrop is a simple yet highly addictive...

» The Destruction of American Democracy
25/10/25 00:20 from Google Maps Mania
Thanks to Soar you can watch the destruction of American democracy in near real-time. The animated GIF above shows satellite imagery from before and after Trump's illegal demolition of the East Wing of the White House. The republic ...

» A 3D View of Our Warming Seas
24/10/25 08:14 from Google Maps Mania
An impressive new 3D globe visualization allows you to explore how the oceans are warming day by day. The Global Sea Surface Temperature map displays daily ocean temperatures and anomalies - how much warmer or cooler each part of the oce...

» The Glasses Free 3D Map
23/10/25 08:42 from Google Maps Mania
This morning I found a link on Hacker News to a glasses-free 3D webpage. This Dragon Courtyard demo uses your device's webcam to track your head motion and then applies motion parallax to make it feel like you're looking through a window...

» A Divided Map of America’s Overdose Crisis
22/10/25 08:36 from Google Maps Mania
In Overdose in America The Guardian reports that drug overdose death rates in the United States are falling across most of the country. According to The Guardian's report overdose death rates have fallen nationally since 2023 mainly beca...

» County Stripes
21/10/25 08:54 from Google Maps Mania
County Stripes I was reading the comments on a time-lapse map of power outages in the US posted on Reddit yesterday. Many of the comments focused on the sizes of U.S. counties, particularly noting how counties appear to get noticeab...

» A 65,000-Year History Map
20/10/25 09:14 from Google Maps Mania
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has attempted to tell the 65,000-year history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Its Deep Time project brings to the fore the stories of Country from First Nations know...

» No Kings, No Tyrants & No Dictators
18/10/25 10:19 from Google Maps Mania
The No Kings interactive map is not particularly interesting in itself - except as a visualization of the huge geographic sweep of anti-Trump sentiment in the United States. The map is ostensibly just a simple interactive map that shows ...

» Bird Migrations in a Warming World
17/10/25 17:28 from Google Maps Mania
The Guardian has published a report exploring how global warming is affecting the natural migration patterns of different bird species. The article Bird Migration Is Changing is beautifully illustrated with a number of impressive animate...

» America - Then & Now
16/10/25 08:46 from Google Maps Mania
The Library of Congress Street View Explorer allows you to view vintage photographs side-by-side with their corresponding modern Google Street View panoramas, letting you explore how America has changed (or not) over time.Matt ...

» How to Create a Birdsong Map
15/10/25 19:34 from Google Maps Mania
Diario SUR has created an interactive that allows you to listen to Málaga birds singing directly from a map. Mouseover any of the markers on This is how Málaga sings and you can listen to a sound recording of a Málaga bird species submit...

» Which NYC Neighborhood Do You Live In?
14/10/25 07:26 from Google Maps Mania
Is it NYC? allows you to discover which New York neighborhood most resembles your hometown. Simply enter your location into Is It NYC? and instantly discover if you're living in a trendy, SoHo-like area or a leafy, outer-borough haven li...

» Drowning Cities in 3D
13/10/25 06:38 from Google Maps Mania
The Sea Level Rise 3D Map is a very effective visualization of the possible effects of rising sea levels. The map uses Google's 3D Maps API with deck.gl and three.js to create a very realistic demonstration of how locations around the wo...

» Stories of Displacement & Return
11/10/25 08:32 from Google Maps Mania
Journeys of Resilience of Refugees from Ukraine is an interactive map tracking the movements of refugees from Ukraine amidst the ongoing war. Created for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), the map captures both...

» How much for a house like this?
10/10/25 16:30 from Google Maps Mania
How good are you at guessing the value of a house based purely on its curb appeal? Well, now you can find out with my new daily challenge Street View game - Curb Value.Each day, Curb Value loads a new set of real homes currently on the m...

» How Big was the Roman Empire?
10/10/25 07:32 from Google Maps Mania
TrueSize.net is an interactive map that allows you to compare the true size of countries and regions around the world. You’ve probably played with 'true size' maps before but TrueSize.net goes far beyond other 'true size' maps - t’s a fu...

» 30 Day Map Challenge
09/10/25 07:19 from Google Maps Mania
November’s 30DayMapChallenge is fast approaching - and the daily themes for this year’s event have just been released!The #30DayMapChallenge is an annual, community-driven event that brings together mapmakers from all over the ...

» India Rules the World Map
08/10/25 08:41 from Google Maps Mania
This animated cartogram resizes countries around the world according to their annual number of births.In this “natal map” of the world, India appears as the largest country, with over 23 million babies born each year - roughly equivalent...

» Four Ways to Destroy the Earth
07/10/25 07:23 from Google Maps Mania
Project Impact is an interactive asteroid-impact simulator that lets you drop different sized asteroids on the cities of your choice - and observe how they could be destroyed. Alongside the simulation, you can also learn about the mitiga...

» Mapping Russia's Attack on Europe
06/10/25 09:22 from Google Maps Mania
Each symbol on this interactive map represents an attempt by the Russian state to destabilize European democracy. The map visualizes Russia’s hybrid warfare against the West, which involves tactics as diverse as cyberattacks, disinformat...

» The School Lines That Divide US
04/10/25 09:54 from Google Maps Mania
New America has released an interactive map that reveals how the boundaries of U.S. school districts could be redrawn to create a fairer education system for all students.In most states, school district lines determine which local proper...

» The Atlas of American Gun Violence
03/10/25 07:42 from Google Maps Mania
The Trace's An Atlas of American Gun Violence is an interactive map that uses data from the Gun Violence Archive to visualize gun homicides and assaults across the contiguous United States.The map has drawn a fair amount of criticism on ...

» European Death Zones
02/10/25 07:13 from Google Maps Mania
Tages-Anzeiger’s data team has published a striking interactive map that visualizes one of Europe’s most profound demographic challenges: in most of the continent's regions, more people are now dying than are being born.In Europe is...

» The World is Your Canvas with PaintMyMap
01/10/25 08:12 from Google Maps Mania
Creating a truly beautiful and customized map can be a frustrating experience, requiring either expensive software or deep coding knowledge. Enter PaintMyMap, a new online custom map maker that lets anyone - from educators to profes...

» Mapping the Housing Crisis in Portugal
30/09/25 09:07 from Google Maps Mania
The growth of short-term rental properties is a serious problem in Portugal and is contributing to a housing crisis that makes it increasingly difficult for residents to find affordable homes. des AL ojamento is a Mapbox story-...

» Test Yourself on These Books Set in U.S. State Capital Cities
15/07/25 00:16 from Geography
If you still remember the 50 U.S. state capital cities from memorizing them in school, you’ll do well on this week’s literary quiz.

» ‘Nazi Creek’ in Alaska Gets a New Name After More Than 70 Years
13/07/25 19:49 from Geography
German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name persisted.

» Eating an array of smaller fish could be nutrient-dense solution to overfishing
03/06/25 18:12 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller portions of fish.

» Scientists say next few years vital to securing the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
03/06/25 15:50 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds of years according to a new study. Howe...

» First direct observation of the trapped waves that shook the world in 2023
03/06/25 15:50 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became trapped standing waves. Using a brand-new type of satellite al...

» Geological time capsule highlights Great Barrier Reef's resilience
02/06/25 19:55 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
New research adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The findings suggest the reef can withstand rising sea levels in isolation but is v...

» Researchers use deep learning to predict flooding this hurricane season
02/06/25 19:49 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a deep learning model called LSTM-SAM that predicts extreme water levels from tropical cyclones more efficiently and accurately, especially in data-scarce coastal regions, to offer a faster, low-cost tool for f...

» Air-quality monitoring underestimates toxic emissions to Salton Sea communities, study finds
02/06/25 19:46 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers showed that hydrogen sulfide, which is associated with numerous health conditions, is emitted from California's largest lake at levels far higher and more frequently than previously reported.

» Small currents, big impact: Satellite breakthrough reveals hidden ocean forces
30/05/25 16:39 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
While scientists have long studied currents of large eddies, the smaller ones -- called submesoscale eddies -- are notoriously difficult to detect. These currents, which range from several kilometers to 100 kilometers wide, have been the...

» Rising soil nitrous acid emissions, driven by climate change and fertilization, accelerate global ozone pollution
30/05/25 16:38 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Ozone pollution is a global environmental concern that not only threatens human health and crop production, but also worsens global warming. While the formation of ozone is often attributed to anthropogenic pollutants, soil emissions are...

» Predicting underwater landslides before they strike
30/05/25 16:38 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
A new method for predicting underwater landslides may improve the resilience of offshore facilities.

» Save twice the ice by limiting global warming
29/05/25 19:54 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, at least 54 per cent could be preserved ...

» Anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier loss
29/05/25 19:54 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. This article appears alongside new research that estimates that more than three-quarters of the world's glacier mass could disappear by the end of the centur...

» 2021's Hurricane Ida could have been even worse for NYC
29/05/25 19:54 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Hurricane Ida wreaked an estimated $75 billion in total damages and was responsible for 112 fatalities -- including 32 in New Jersey and 16 in New York state. Yet the hurricane could have been even worse in the Big Apple, find scientists.

» Atlantic ocean current unlikely to collapse with climate change
29/05/25 16:47 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers created a detailed physical model that suggests a major Atlantic Ocean current will weaken far less under climate change than indicated by more extreme climate model projections.

» EV battery recycling key to future lithium supplies
29/05/25 16:47 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis looks at how new mining operations and battery r...

» Thousands of sensors reveal 3D structure of earthquake-triggered sound waves
29/05/25 16:41 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Earthquakes create ripple effects in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite communications and navigation systems we rely on. Scientists have now used Japan's extensive network of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) re...

» Europe's most complete stegosaurian skull unearthed in Teruel, Spain
28/05/25 17:21 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Palaeontologists have analyzed the most complete stegosaurian skull ever found in Europe and rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group of dinosaurs.

» Even birds can't outfly climate change
28/05/25 17:15 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
As rising global temperatures alter ecosystems worldwide, animal species usually have two choices: adapt to changing local conditions or flee to a cooler clime. Ecologists have long assumed that the world's bird species were best equippe...

» The ocean seems to be getting darker
27/05/25 16:44 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world's coasts and oceans, have shown that more than one-fifth of the global ocean -- an area spanning more than 75 million sq km -- h...

» How marine plankton adapts to a changing world
23/05/25 18:19 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While lab studies have shown plankton can adjus...

» El Niño and La Niña climate swings threaten mangroves worldwide
23/05/25 16:04 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
New international research demonstrates global-scale patterns in how El Ni o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences mangrove growth and degradation. Previously, impacts had only been documented at individual sites, such as a dramatic die...

» When the sea moves inland: A global climate wake-up call from Bangladesh's Delta
23/05/25 16:04 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt. Salinization of freshwater and soils adversely affects 500 million people around the world, especially in low-lying river ...

» Climate change poses severe threat to bowhead whale habitat
22/05/25 16:55 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75 per cent.

» Breakthrough AI model could transform how we prepare for natural disasters
22/05/25 16:48 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
From deadly floods in Europe to intensifying tropical cyclones around the world, the climate crisis has made timely and precise forecasting more essential than ever. Yet traditional forecasting methods rely on highly complex numerical mo...