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Scientists from the University of California and Columbia University have released a new interactive map which visualizes the impact of human sewage on the world's coastlines. It is fairly well known that nitrogen from agricultural run-off (from fertilizers and livestock waste) contribute to harmful algae blooms which effect the amount of oxygen in rivers and along coastlines. This run-off is

CO2 is one of the biggest causes of global heating. Calculating our own individual CO2 output is very difficult, chiefly because a lot of our personal contributions to climate change come from our purchasing and consumption decisions - where the CO2 costs are largely hidden. However it is much easier to calculate our personal CO2 output from our transportation decisions.Cars (and other

The Guardian newspaper has released a story map which visualizes & explains how the Republican Party is attempting to rig elections across the United States. Ten years ago the Republican Party launched its Project REDMAP initiative in an attempt to undermine American democracy. This plan involves taking control of state legislatures and then gerrymandering electoral districts in order to weaken

Reading's Rabble Theatre has created an interactive whodunit map game based on a real-life murder case. Who Killed Alfred Oliver? is a whodunit mystery which requires you to use a 1929 map of Reading in order to discover the killer of a tobacconist on Cross Street. The game is actually based on a real-life event in which Alfred Oliver was bludgeoned to death in his own tobacconist shop.Using the

On the the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the First World War came to an end. Armistice Day is now commemorated every year on the 11th November to mark the signing of peace between the Allies and Germany. This armistice brought to an end a conflict in which it is estimated that over 21 million people died.  It is hard to conceive now the sheer enormity of the

It has been the Clarke family mission for the last 150 years to spread the 'Clarke' name across the length and breadth of this green & pleasant land. As you can tell from the map above it is a mission with which we have spectacularly failed.   In the 1850s the surname 'Clarke' was largely concentrated in London, the Midlands and the North West of the UK. In 2016 the 'Clarke' family name was

In the United States Daylight Saving ended last Sunday. Obviously you don't need a map to tell you that putting the clocks back by one hour every Fall is a despicable & sadistic form of torture. However if you want to really complain about the clock's changing you should refer to Andy Woodruff's Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool. The actual number of hours of daylight remain the same

Since 1993 the sea around the Pacific Islands has risen by an average of 7mm a year, which is more than double the global average. This means that global heating is already proving an existential threat to the Marshall Islands. 58,413 people live on the five islands and 29 coral atolls which make up the Marshall Islands. Due to the very low elevation of these islands the whole country is

Readers of a certain age may remember the Atari video game Asteroids. Asteroids was one of the most successfully computer games of the 1980's, the golden age of the arcade. The object of Asteroids was to control a spaceship while avoiding and destroying asteroids. If (and inevitably when) an asteroid managed to hit your ship you lost a life. Asteroids was of course a classic game which deserves

In the last year gas prices in Europe have risen more than 500%. This has led to the collapse of a number of energy suppliers and, more importantly, to huge increases to household energy bills. Gas supplies across Europe are also at such low levels that a cold winter could see governments having to cut supplies to both industry and households. In How Does Europe Get its Gas the Financial Times

China and the United States have refused to sign up to halting new coal production. At the COP26 climate summit 40 countries from around the world have agreed to halt all investment in new coal power generation. Coal is the biggest contributor to global heating. By refusing to agree to move away from coal power China and the USA have effectively decided to condemn the whole world to irreversible

ProPublica has released a new interactive map which identifies where industrial facilities are increasing the cancer risks of nearby populations by releasing toxic air pollution into the environment. According to ProPublica's analysis of EPA data around a quarter of a million Americans are being exposed to polluted emissions from industrial plants. Air pollution which is increasing their risks

Timeline Travel is an interactive mapping portal which has been designed to visualize the architectural history of individual towns and cities. Currently the site allows you to explore the development of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture in Istanbul, late Classic/Byzantine architecture in the Italian city of Ravenna, and the history of Renaissance architecture in Rome.Each city's individual

GPX Maps, from Map Channels, is an easy to use application for creating your own animated maps of a GPX route. If you have a GPX file of a walking route, a bike ride or a car drive then you can simply upload the file to GPX Maps and it will create your very own animated interactive map presentation. If you have a video and a GPX file of a route then you can create something even more special

For my first entry in the #30DayMapChallenge I have created a map of all natural landmarks in California called 'Point'.My California Points map uses a terrain map style so that you can get a sense of the location of the state's mountain ranges and the Central Valley. I have also color-coded all the place-names on the map by their elevation. The darker blue place-names have the highest