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The world is filled with trees that are hundreds—if not thousands—of years old, and the UK's Woodland Trust believes each one deserves the same protections great cathedrals and castles receive. This active database invites users to peruse...
Visualizing the disappearance of streams in Washington, DC.
Maps have long loosely approximated what the world actually looks like. Here's a few common errors that persist due to outdated conceptions of the world.
See how cities around the globe have changed since 1984 through a global time-lapse video produced by Google Earth.
Spring tends to arrive within a range of dates in the contiguous US. See a map illustrating the most recent year's first leaf and first bloom in relation to historical averages to see how early or late the season arrived.
Land Lines is an experiment that lets you explore real Google Earth satellite imagery through gesture.
This 5-minute video explains why all maps to date are verifiably wrong. While globes can provide an accurate map and scale of the various continents, flattening that sphere has historically meant something will be distorted, whether land, sea, or...
The white sand acts as a projector screen and a topographic map image is projected on the surface. An XBOX Kinect is positioned to read the contours of the sand and draw new topographic lines according to how the sand is moved.
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