Blackouts are getting worse in Cuba. On some days, the entire island is plunged into near total darkness. The electricity crisis has laid bare the risks of depending so heavily on foreign oil while trying to maintain a centrally planned socialist economic system.

Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com Come help us explain the news! We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations. Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

Interactive Maps and Charts: Tracking the Northeast Winter Storm www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've just added three KH-7 images of the Matochkin Shar Nuclear Test Site to the declassified imagery gallery. These shots are gorgeous. There's something about film and snowy landscapes. October 4, 1965: spacefromspace.com/declassified... May 26, 1967: spacefromspace.com/declassified... cont.

Trump's View Of the World Even on a global scale, the president's attitudes reflect a fixation on a single subject: himself. GIFT LINK 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create OpenStreetMap-derived, Wikipedia-informed national borders on a Protomaps base map legal for educational use in countries in conflict. medium.com/@michalmigur...

Starting to look alright. Added line rendering, pictured here Jack Kuenzle's FKT route (www.strava.com/activities/9...)

My thoughts are with the +300 colleagues who were laid off today. This is not good for the industry www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif... - Fast, with a Rust core - Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding - Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile - Remote data support with Obstore - No GDAL dependency

The last few weeks I've seen a lot of great job opportunities shared, listing a few that stood out to me in the mapping/cartography/visual journalism space: www.linkedin.com/posts/lauren...

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

Playing with elevation data in #Blender. This is the #Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) boundary which includes all of the watersheds that converge in Toronto. Going to try draping some orthophotos and land cover data over this. Other ideas? #Maps #Mapping #GIS #3D #dataviz

From NYT World: (Gif link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No time like a holiday deadline to learn MapLibre and how to run a cron job for the first time 🙃 (with a big assist from @willbdavis.bsky.social ) Follow along our “slow blog” as Ray and Chang join a team of scientists traveling to Antarctica: 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...

From NYT National: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Will You Have a White Christmas This Year? 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bringing back the bugle mountains with this work in progress.

Fun little exploratory project. I mapped transit oriented surface parking lots in NYC and applied recent development densities to estimate housing potential. Link at the end. #NYC #Planning #Dataviz #mapping #maps #map #housing

A Dead Glacier Is a Loss. A Dying One Is a Threat. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tracking snowfall around Lake Michigan overnight and into today w/ @nazaneentv.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

@nytweather.bsky.social relaunched a freezing temperature tracker for this season. Check it out here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Been obsessed with local flood hotspots since my ground floor apartment flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Seems like a good day to share this beautiful look at NYC's flood risk and some solutions the city is exploring (feat. lovely @nunderwood6.bsky.social maps!): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

12 hours of Hurricane #Melissa, one frame every minute. 🛰️🗺️

Intensification of hurricane #melissa overnight www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’ve spent years collecting tools, datasets, maps, and other interesting links I’ve come across through my work and passion. I’m organizing everything into one place: If you’d like to get it when it’s out, you can subscribe here: pablorobles.substack.com/about

From NYT Climate, via @harrystevens.bsky.social and @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've started processing NOAA's MRMS data to show near real-time storm impacts. Here's the latest from storm Imelda: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mapping some recent double events www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I just published a new installment of A Gentle Introduction to GDAL. It’s about visualizing time series data & automating tedious processing chains with shell scripting. No experience needed. #cartography #maps #dataviz medium.com/@robsimmon/a...

Zodiac signs were originally based on the stars. But over thousands of years, our view of the stars has shifted. That means, if you account for this shift, your sign might not be what you think. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New blog post on @mapterhorn.com - terrain for web mapping protomaps.com/blog/mapterh...

Tennis vs. pickleball: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds #mapshaper #turfjs #flubber #svelte5 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hurricane Erin this morning: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators w/ Hiroko Tabuchi 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A very manual @protomaps.com to print pipeline. Always excited to get something in print 🗞️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A story in 9 maps to explain what weather experts call “flash flood month.” 🎁 link: nyti.ms/44PpkiD | great work by my colleagues @willbdavis.bsky.social, @sonofjud.bsky.social and @wallacetim.bsky.social

We’re hiring a senior-level Frontend Engineer! This role is about building tools that help people use Earth data to tackle real-world problems — from climate and conservation to disaster response and open science. Remote, open-source, and meaningful. Details + apply: grnh.se/39qfi0m13us

We interviewed neighbors and former workers, as well as reviewed dozens of photos, videos, recent and historical satellite and aerial imagery of mass grave sites. My colleague Charlie Smart reported from Damascus and captured one remaining trench with photogrammetry.

📊 Here’s a colorful preview of this week’s Data Vis Dispatch! Topics include oil tanker traffic, NYC elections, and the global race for renewable energy 🔋 www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

The first day of the Atlantic hurricane season came and went on June 1 without a named storm. Three weeks in, there still hasn’t been a named storm. That is both unusual, and not. Here's why.

About a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/c...

Animated some dust moving across the atlantic for this story with @amyjeangraff.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...

Remember the 2015 internet debate about whether the dress was blue and black, or white and gold? I'm a bumps and bumps person on this one. Give it a try. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Four National Weather Service offices have gone dark at night, and more service reductions are temporarily planned because of the significant cuts this year, which are stretching meteorologists thin. But could these cuts also kickstart a modernization plan? nyti.ms/3YOf6wN

Policy changes often take years to show results. And then there is congestion pricing in New York. Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Live-updating mini globe on the home page over the weekend w/ @jkeefe.bsky.social

After a slow-moving weather system swamped the Midwest U.S. in early April 2025, many rivers’ water levels soared to near-historic levels. Arkansas was particularly hard hit. “This is one of the largest, most dramatic, and long-lasting agricultural floods we’ve seen in Arkansas in decades” 🧪

Made two animated globes using gdal, ffmpeg, and ai2html for this story (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...