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How We Built Climate TRACE’s Animated Plume Layer

I’ve always believed the best visualizations are simple, tangible, and evoke emotion.

Dan McCarey
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Oct 21, 2025

Growing Food in Pixels

The Plotline, Earth Genome’s food and climate project, recently published an interactive map visualizing crops that grow across the United States at 10 by 10 meter resolution.

Cameron Kruse
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Sep 13, 2023

How to build tomorrow’s AI for the Earth

Today’s AI is not sufficient for today’s environmental challenges.

Ben Strong
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Sep 6, 2023

A Tool To Save California’s Farming Future

We’ve recently published a map based story on this past winter in California and a tool that’s helping farmers capitalize on the influx of water to recharge aquifers and store water for future dry seasons.

Cameron Kruse
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Jul 27, 2023

ChatGeoPT: Exploring the future of talking to our maps

In this blog post we walk through some of our initial explorations using AI interfaces to solve geospatial problems.

Ben Strong
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Mar 18, 2023

Let’s make more dot grid maps

I am excited about dot grid maps. And I’m surprised that we don’t see more of them. Dot grids are a clear, informative, multidimensional and flexible cartographic technique.

Mikel Maron
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Feb 6, 2023

Animating the carbon stored in every tree on the planet

In the intense run up to COP27 we were asked to produce an animated video of the carbon stored in every tree on the planet for the incredible CTrees.

Earthrise Media
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Nov 28, 2022

Mapping and Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions: Climate TRACE identifies the 70,000 highest emitting greenhouse gas sources

Today Climate TRACE launches the first detailed facility-level global inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Earthrise Media
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Nov 9, 2022