Mercator (again)

This GIF is pretty cool (source):

And then there is: Real Country Sizes Shown on Mercator Projection

The Fourth National Climate Assessment

In case we needed more data and evidence:

• NCA4 - Volume I (Science)
• NCA4 - Volume II (Impacts, Risks, Adaptation)

The whole things presented as an Esri Story Map (also embedded below): Hot Numbers.

Housing and Income

Esri created two nice web maps / apps looking into housing across in the country in terms of a) availability and b) affordability:

• Affording the American Dream? (simple web map)
• Affording the American Dream? (immersive Story Map

The map below is more simplistic: the blues show higher housing affordability and reds show lower housing affordability.

Esri

2013-2017 AHR Map

2013-17 Top Ancestry or Hispanic or Racial Group with AA Estimate Multimap by Census Tract

Zoom-in: this is fascinating!

The Equal Earth Wall Map

The Equal Earth Wall Map is for schools, organizations, or anyone who needs a map showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Africa appears 14 times larger than Greenland as it actually is.

The Red Cross/Crescent Climate Centre - Games

Who knew: The Red Cross/Crescent provides a series of excellent games and instructional resources to learn about climate change and its impacts @  https://climatecentre.org/resources-games/games.

Let's Get SASSY!

SASSY =  The Six Americas Super Short Survey - try it!

1880 to 2017

So warm werden die Sommer

So warm werden die Sommer is similar to 1001 Blistering Future Summers, but global (which is great) and in German (which is not great).

Countries by Area

Simple and fun: Countries by Area