War and (no) Peace? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Demographic Change: Europe's Population Trends Visualised www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... (nice data visualisation, but an unnecessary over-use of the word crisis, dear @theguardian.com)

Who Feeds the World? Find out at BragaGarour, the Icelandic Slow Food Festival this weekend at Grasagaröinum. Among the displays will be our FoodMapper Quiz, checking your knowledge of the world of food with over 200 maps! slowfood.is/bragdagardur...

Broken News: The Global State of Press Freedom journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Stateless and Scattered: Mapping the Palestinian Diaspora journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Generative AI is not a ‘calculator for words’ theconversation.com/generative-a...

Global Science Equity Survey: Participate if you are in science and academia! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Basemap World: a sleek, vector-based web map service with global and German data - interactive, customisable, and quite up-to-date basemap.de/produkte-und...

Tourist eruption? The Reykjanes Peninsula has finally decided again to continue its eruption series at the height of the tourist season, The latest eruption in Iceland started at 3.57am last night en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

Draw your own chart game: oil prices www.ft.com/content/c618...

ISLAS 2025 🏝️ Westfjords Edition 🏔️ Our Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability summer school finally made it to Iceland! 🇮🇸 It was an inspiring week exploring Remote Communities in Transition @haskoliislands.bsky.social / @islandsmaster.bsky.social #ISLAS2025

The Illusion of Causality in Charts: How charts can mislead us by depicting causes that may not exist filwd.substack.com/p/the-illusi...

How much energy are you using on AI? www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-ener...

Cross Stitch Land Cover Map of Iceland www.linkedin.com/posts/jjmcf_...

Climate change drives record-breaking heat in Iceland and Greenland challenging cold adapted ecosystems and societies www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

UK Travel Visualiser - a neat little mapping project smstone0.github.io#/uk-map

A whole new volcanic hazard map for the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been published by the Icelandic Met Office (Veðurstofa Íslands). Find out more about the redesign at en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

Is it there yet? It looks as if the next volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland is just about to begin. www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...

Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The UK’s academic recession is in full swing www.ft.com/content/0ec7...

Biocubes: a visual story of the living and the built biocubes.net

Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Deutschland 25

RIP Peter Haggett I vividly remember the first geography book I purchased as a first-year undergraduate in 1998. It made me realise how much more geography really is beyond what I had learnt at school.

Mapping Favourite Colours - An Interactive ArcGIS Story Map storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d51f...

GIS for Kids www.geographyrealm.com/gis-for-kids/

Nusantara Atlas - From Rice Fields to Beach Clubs, and Sprawling Cities: 60 years of Change in Southern Bali map.nusantara-atlas.org

Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heart-shaped maps www.geographyrealm.com/heart-shaped...

Gulf of ______? Google (first map) quickly falling in line with the US administration's guidance that was adopted by the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), while Apple (second map) still being reluctant. blog.google/products/map...

Well done - not even a week in Iceland and already leading the way :-)

Disappearing landscapes: The Arctic at +2.7°C global warming www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Visionscarto’s World Atlas: Natural Earth data revisited to reflect the UN's position on the integrity of Ukraine & the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara as well as 3 self-governing entities with an undecided UN status: Somaliland, Taiwan, and Kosovo observablehq.com/@visionscart...

Natural Earth is an amazing effort and valuable dataset. But I absolutely disagree with their 2022 decision to have Crimea connected to Russia as a default in their countries baselayer. Many users will adopt this in their maps without even noticing. Should this not at least be a separate polygon?

Lightning in Iceland - a rare sight. Lightning striking Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík - what are the odds? (video via www.visir.is/g/2025268495...)

How do place names evolve? Örnefni, an ancient Icelandic term, highlights how human interactions and landscape changes shape place names english.hi.is/news/how-do-...

Mercator extreme: Build the much beloved Mercator projection by substituting any point on earth as the "pole" mrgris.com/projects/mer...

Working with Colours in R nrennie.rbind.io/blog/colours...

'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Regional and institutional trends in assessment for academic promotion www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Yves Cabannes, a visionary urban planner and advocate for habitat-related human rights who supported our Coalition since its founding. His dedication to equitable development will continue to inspire us🌍 www.hic-net.org/honoring-the... #YvesCabannes

Playing for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural Iceland www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁  https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

Dear Santa…

Remote Communities in Transition: Join us in the Westfjords of Iceland for the 2025 Summer School in the Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability series. Apply now! tinyurl.com/islas2025

Lights in the North (Reykjavík, Iceland, 29 August 2024)

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In Focus: Mapping Disillusionment: The 2024 US Presidential Election journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...