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Ekuatorial uses geographic data to cover climate change in Indonesia
by Jessica Weiss Frequent flooding and critically low crop yields are just two of the warning signs of climate change in Indonesia, home to the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest and some of the...
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Data-driven journalism project Land Quest maps drilling profits and aid in Kenya
In Kenya’s poor, dry Turkana region, recent discoveries of water and oil could change the lives of residents who depend on food aid for survival. In March 2012, the country’s President Mwai Kibaki...
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Open Data in Asia’s Water Tower: data.thethirdpole.net
“There was drought so we had to share the little water brought a long distance from irrigation canals to the field. This delay in rice planting is resulting in a late harvest,” explains Ratna Darai,...
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Data Big and Small
Mapping deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest, via InfoAmazonia.org. InfoAmazonia is a primary example of GeoJournalim, the practice of contextualizing local news with visuals derived from satellites,...
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Dust in the Wind: How Data Visualization Can Help the Environment
A recent study using NASA’s CALIPSOsatellite described how wind and weather carry millions of tons of dust from the Sahara desert to the Amazon basin each year – bringing much-needed fertilizers like...
View ArticleLearning by Doing: A History of the DustDuino Sensor Pilot in Sao Paulo
The MakeSense project began in early 2014 with a proposal to the Feedback Labs experiment fund, seeking to test the following hypothesis: Citizen-led sensor monitoring of environmental factors will...
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Big Data and the Planetary Nervous System: An Interview with Planet OS CEO...
Accessing useful data about the status of our planet’s environment is often a struggle. From with the variety of sources to the diversity of formats and tools out there, journalists interested in...
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Eyes on the forests: an Interview with Dr. Matthew Hansen, University of...
Professor Matt Hansen by Rollin Hu Monitoring the state of the world’s forests is a monumental task with challenges in data collection, interpretation and display. The Global Forest Change (GFC), a...
View ArticleUsing climate data to answer common questions
By comparing maximum temperatures today against predictions for 2050 and 2070, this new map helps answer a simple question about our complicated weather system. As the climate changes, what is the...
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iSeeChange: A Social Platform for Recording Climate Change
For a simple term, “climate change” carries a lot of baggage to unpack. The ecological and economic implications of a warming planet are far-reaching, the jargon is confusing, and the local impacts of...
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