The New Way To Publish!

This is great! First, you have an allroud excellent paper, published OPEN in Nature Medicine. Second, you get a cool animated data viz where you can drill into the data and results yourself. Now all you need to add is a simple Data Download button and this would be perfect. Have a look:

Kephart, J.L., Sánchez, B.N., Moore, J. et al. City-level impact of extreme temperatures and mortality in Latin America. Natire Medicine (2022).

City Planning Games

Here are a few city planning games:

• Future City Playgrounds
• Perma Cities
• SimCity

Free Stats Book!

Awesome: Introduction to Probability for Data Science (read online, watch the videos, exercises, solutions, and a PDF download).

Deforestation in Bolivia

Nothing new here, but a) the patterns are wild and b) the change between 1986 and 2022 is incredible: Patterns of Forest Change in Bolivia

ArcGIS StoryMaps Collections

That opens-up all kinds of good options: Recreate the classic Story Map Series template in ArcGIS StoryMaps with collections.

Now, if you could only add a basic and simple text 'tile' as part of your collection!

Survey123 inside a Story Map

This is pretty cool: How to add a self-check quiz into ArcGIS StoryMaps using Survey123

For example, you can create a Story Map to present an issue to your stakeholders (e.g. different development options for an empty parcel of land) and then embed a Survey123 survey to get feedback, preferences, and comments.

Carbon Offsets

Carbon offsets and the issues associated with them are old news, but here are two great recent videos about them:

• Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• The Carbon Offset Problem (Wendover Productions)

Dangerous Heat

Good maps & you can enter your own zip code to see what will happen in your town: More dangerous heat waves are on the way: See the impact by Zip code

1990 - 2020 US Census Dot Density Dashboard

This is just cool: 1990 - 2020 US Census Dot Density Dashboard

The Health Effects of Climate Change

The Wellcome Trust has mapped out 120 years of climate data in order to explore the health effects of climate change: Tracking the health effects of climate change around the world

It's cool and technically-sophisticated, but lacks any kind of storytelling - it present the data, but does not illicite any emotions.

Meltsville

This is a 'cool' idea: let's create a fake city called Meltsville to explore the impacts of extreme heat on urban infrastructure and society: We built a fake metropolis to show how extreme heat could wreck cities

LiDAR Data Portal for Indiana

In case you need LiDAR data for Indiana: https://lidar.digitalforestry.org/

Data Basin

Data Basin is a great geoportal for free and open geospatial data with an emphasize of ecosystem data. Read more about it here: Data Basin as a source for free and open geospatial data

Ice Ages vs Volcanoes

 

Hurricanes and Climate Change

Lake Mead Keeps Dropping

Nothing new here: Lake Mead Keeps Dropping

Mining and the Green Revolution

This could be useful: Mining and the Green Revolution

The Atmosphere

This is such a great photograph from the ISS: Earth’s Limb with a Crescent Moon

And - why not?

I can't imagine that putting solar panels on lakes is a good idea in-general, but in specific situations it may be appropriate - see Solar Takes a Swim for an example from China.