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On January 21, the day after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, the U.S. Census Bureau launched its decennial count of the population, beginning with inhabitants of remote…
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In 2003, the Cedar Fire swept through Southern California’s San Diego County, consuming more than 273,000 acres, destroying nearly 3,000 structures, and killing 15 people. It was the…
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Wildfires are a fact of life in California—and not a new one. Living in the state has always meant forging an uneasy alliance with the natural cycle of fires. What has changed in recent years…
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Although cinema is a universal art-form, the Academy Awards, primarily a celebration of Hollywood, skew American. Three out of the five nominees for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director…
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At the World Economic Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland, the young climate change activist Greta Thunberg had stern words for the world’s most powerful people. Citing the work of the 2018…
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In 1968, a few weeks after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., thousands of people marched on Washington as part of the Poor People's Campaign. A project of King and the Southern…
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Be sure to watch this animated map full-screen at 4K resolution!
This animated map makes use of USGS data to map earthquake events with a magnitude of 6.0 and greater from 1900 to November 2019. The…
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This animated map shows the ebb and flow of tornado migrations in the continental United States. Using data from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center, we aggregated over 50 years of tornado events…
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Let's look back at over ten thousand years of volcanic eruptions. This animated map groups eruptions using the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) with indices from 0 to 8. For reference, the 1977…
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Sea Surface Temperature is a key climate and weather measurement used for weather prediction, ocean forecasts, tropical cyclone forecasts, and in coastal applications such as fisheries, pollution…
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