Tag: climate change
How The New York Times visualized racist historical redlining and urban heat
In late August, The New York Times published “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering,” a visual reckoning on historical redlining, persistent racial inequality and who feels increased […]
How Vox visualized sea and land ice loss over the last decade
Last December, Vox published a piece that uses interactive images and charts to visualize the loss of sea and land ice over the last decade. The reporter, Umair Irfan, focuses […]
Five ways organizations are visualizing carbon emissions
Climate change is a global issue and scientists and journalists alike are increasingly making climate-related data more visible and accessible. Understanding the major causes and contributors to emissions of CO2, […]
How the New York Times visualized auto carbon emissions in the U.S. and your city
When data visualization guru Alberto Cairo visited Northeastern University in October, he said data visualization is not so much about simplifying a complex issue or set of information. Rather, it’s […]
Emily Atkin is pissed off about climate change. Her new newsletter Heated says we all should be
Fed up, pissed off and ready to act on climate injustice. That’s the direction Emily Atkin is taking her new climate change newsletter, Heated. After two and a half years […]
How I analyzed two months of climate change coverage
For a long time, climate change seemed to me to be neglected by the media. There always seemed to be this knee-jerk reaction to treat environmental stories as niche. But […]
“What does climate change mean in your life?”
Carol Gregory, the vice president of communications and marketing for the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston nonprofit focused on the environment, said her job is to sell visions and ideas […]
For journalism students reporting on climate change, a self-taught lesson in teamwork
Recently I was faced with a dilemma. A speaking engagement I had agreed to was scheduled during the same time as my journalism class. How could I plan something more […]
Eight ways journalists are visualizing the wildfires in California
California officials and firefighters are becoming increasingly concerned that the drier, windier conditions spurred on by the warming climate will make wildfires more devastating and their seasons longer. But are […]
How the documentary “The Naked Truth: Wasteland” explored Scott Pruitt and the fossil fuel lobby.
Shortly after Donald Trump’s election, when Scott Pruitt took the reins at the Environmental Protection Agency, longtime EPA staffers began seeing a severe scaling back of the protections they were […]
Using maps, kayaks and notebooks to understand the biodiversity and resilience of Boston’s coastline
On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Donald Trump talked a lot about revitalizing America’s crumbling infrastructure. Other issues, however, have since crowded out the monumental task of addressing this aging […]
How NASA Earth Observatory creates stunning maps to tell technical stories visually
At the heart of any finding by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is a massive amount of data. Its fleet of satellites collect datasets so large they can be hard […]
Six things I learned developing an interactive map on the effects of climate change
Every once in a while, newsroom developers and visual journalists get one of those projects that becomes both a big challenge and a great learning experience. That was the case […]
