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datavis:

Just How Bad Is the Summer Air Quality in Your City?

Visualizing our Food System | food+tech connect

Created by shiftN, this map visualizes the global interconnections among food, agriculture, water, energy, soil, and humans that comprise our food system.

The only thing I have to wonder is why anyone would ever choose to use comic sans.

feltron:

Here’s the adjusted proportion of the top 5 nations, based on the size of China in the original.

And the wikipedia data set.

Infographics of the Day: The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts | Co.

The Carbon Cost of Spam: An Infographic - GOOD Blog - GOOD

IBM Water Management - United States

Though the total amount of water on this planet has never changed, the nature of that water is changing. Everything from where rain falls to the chemical makeup of the oceans is in flux. And these changes are forcing us to ask some very difficult questions about how and where we live and do business.

via www.stacybarnes.info

poptech:

Yasser Ansari, one of the speakers for tonight’s salon uses mobile technology for wildlife exploration and bringing science to the masses. 

Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

Climate through the ages

via www.timesonline.co.uk