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What if Both Parties Redistricted to the Max?
Scrolly explainer running through scenarios.
Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank
Powerful maps, graphics, photos, and testimonials
Eroding protections for public lands
Blender relief maps, mappy type styles, sankey rivers
Texas Floods Analysis Shows Camp Mystic Cabins in Hazard Zones
Scroll along the satellite image.
To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
Scrolly explainer, spinny globe
A Massacre Threatens Darfur — Again
Good use of split screen panning over satellite imagery instead of the classic before/after slider.
Maui Wildfire Timeline: How the Lahaina Inferno Raged, Hour by Hour
Nice use of 3D Google Earth as a canvas for framing videos.
Bird populations are declining. Some are in your neighborhood.
Chilling, binned maps and species search to show population change.
Israel-Gaza war explained: why the Middle East is on the brink again
Detailed, visual scrolly explainer
America Is Draining Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
Sober, understated and chilling.
Follow the 600-mile front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces
Scrolling map and border
How Russia’s Offensive in Eastern Ukraine Ran Aground
Showing captured (and some reclaimed) towns over time instead of the usual shifting “line of control.”
How Forest Loss Can Unleash the Next Pandemic
Excellent interactive explainer
From ‘paradise’ to hell: how a luxury residence in Turkey became an earthquake death trap
The works: drone footage, scrolly maps, infographics, multiples, sat images
What is missing? | A Memorial to the Planet
Mappy three.js powered, sphere and circle driven navigation
How Ukrainians Are Protecting Their Centuries-Old Culture From Putin’s Invasion
Sober photo collage and map work. The side-scroller comparing Google street view with photos of damage is nicely done.
Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy
Nice scrolly, animated intro with photos, sat images and maps.
Scroll the drone footage, zoom the petroglyphs, plus maps!
Russia’s Attacks on Civilian Targets Have Obliterated Everyday Life in Ukraine
Smart approach to mapping damage with images and videos from social media.
Mapping Ukraine and Russia on the edge of war
Charts, maps and before-after sat images beautifully packaged.