By Samantha Hinton With the polluted skies, deadly heat waves, destructive flooding, sweeping forest fires, and more, the state of planet Earth is dragging at geographers and mapmakers’ minds lately. The Human Reach, created by Esri’s StoryMaps team, investigates and...
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By: Nicole Oveisi Al Jazeera compiled a series of maps to showcase the evolution of major protests within the last ten years. The Mass Mobilization Project has tracked protest data spanning the past ten years, recording almost 7,000 protests across...
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By Nina Edward According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), refugees are “people who have fled war, violence, conflict, or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country.” Forcibly displaced people are internally...
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By: Kallie O’Donnell 23andMe is a popular genetic testing website where users can send in some of their saliva and receive a full report of their genetic makeup, including ancestry. The data received ranges in intensity, from “I carry this...
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By Samantha Hinton Out of the calm of her Connecticut countryside residence, graphic artist Paula Scher is anything but peaceful and quiet when painting her lively maps. While playing old movies in the background and saying the lines along with...
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By: Kallie O’Donnell This image was created by cartographer John Nelson as a part of a StoryMap in which he examines the spending habits on wine versus beer per county in the US.  On this map, more vibrant colors represent...
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By Nina Edward This map, from the Peacewall Archive, shows where peace walls in Belfast are still up in 2017. The Troubles was a period of violent conflict from 1969-1998 in Belfast between paramilitary groups and the British military over...
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By Samantha Hinton PEATMAP is an improved global peatland map by Xu et al, 2018. With peatlands’ significant role as carbon sinks within the global carbon cycle, continuing to study and map their extent and distribution will be crucial for...
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by James Mallinson Visual Capitalist has shared this image by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute giving a visual illustration on relative expenditures by the world’s biggest military spenders. As Visual Capitalist notes, the world’s relatively declining global and international...
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