Data Charts Our Course

Data Charts Our Course

People’s Climate March NYC 2014. Photo: Susan Melkisethian The intersection of geospatial information and issues of environmental justice is a rapidly expanding field, with an increased level of interest in recent years. A variety of tools exist at a local and...
See How Climate is Changing at the County Level

See How Climate is Changing at the County Level

The Bay Journal reported recently on a new tool displaying climate changes at the county level for most of the Chesapeake watershed and the northeast US. An interactive map allows the user to hover over a county and see trends in temperature, precipitation and growing...
One Billion for Land and Ocean Conservation

One Billion for Land and Ocean Conservation

Today’s New York Times includes an opinion piece by philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss in which he pledges to donate $1 billion over the next decade to land and ocean conservation. Wyss is motivated by both the negative–the startling ongoing loss of...