Map of the Week As the holiday season comes to fruition, people in the US and around the world are going shopping for Christmas trees. A cultural phenomenon that has lasted for decades, every year consumers flock to local farms...
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In this map you will not find countries, states, nor cities. You will not see clean, straight lines nor finite divisions between labels. What you will find however, is unadulterated, diverse representation of cultures far too often forgotten about or...
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This map shows the over 2,500 sites across the US that handle toxic chemicals and are located in flood-prone areas. A report from the Climate Science Special Report last year warned extensively about the increasing intensity and frequency of flooding...
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  map 1.   It has been all over the news lately: the United States and China are facing each other in a tough tariff war, which hits both economies by raising import tariffs on products of each countries’ exported...
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      How does the neighborhood you grow up in, as a child of low-income parents, determine your possibilities for upward income mobility? Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Internal Revenue Service has been used by Harvard...
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Maps Do it Better: Mapping Florence’s Impact Hurricane Florence was this year’s biggest storm to date in the US, and the impacts of it were enormous. Physical impacts, as well as economic impacts, have been observed throughout the states affected,...
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    Pollution is a well-known threat to overall human health, since it can lead to heart disease, stroke and lung cancer, among others. You can compare bad air quality-effects on the human body with the impact of a person...
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The Handmaid’s Tale is a critically acclaimed television series, based on a dystopian novel by author Margaret Atwood, about a near-future when the continental United States has been taken over by an extremist totalitarian regime. The show has won over...
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America can’t pay the rent. A 2017 report from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) found that 8.3 million very low-income households paid more than half of their monthly income on rent, or lived in substandard housing....
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Earthquakes are a much more common occurrence than one might expect. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are, on average, over 14,000 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or greater every year, which amounts to approximately 40 per day. Every movement...
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