The New Normal: Changing Climate Zones

Climate zones on the move visualizes the historical and predicted future changes in the global distribution of Köppen-Geiger climate zones. Best-viewed when zoomed-into an area such as New England as some of the changes are a little subtle.

The Nuclear Energy Emergence

Or, maybe re-emergence? Nuclear energy looked dead & done in 2011, but it is (maybe) making a come-back. Or, it could just be the perception of a come-back fueled by marketing hype from the nuclear energy industry? Regardless of what your think, here are two facts: 1) nuclear energy is expensive and always will be and 2) we have not solved the nuclear fuel cycle. Nuclear energy may need to be part of our global energy network, but somehow we need to come to terms with these two facts along the way. Here are two great resources:

• The Nuclear Stations Map
• On the nuclear trail: The dawn of a global renaissance in nuclear energy

Overture Maps Explorer (Beta)

I really don't know much about it, but the Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) apparently lets you zoom-into any location on Earth & then download a bunch of map data.

More over @ Maps Mania: Free Map Data Grabbers