Observed arrival · 2026-11-07
The Earth Watch maps 20 environmental hazards across time
An interactive world map lets readers explore natural disasters and slower-moving environmental changes by place, then compare current conditions with earlier years.
- For
- Readers comparing environmental hazards by place and year
- Worth noticing
- Coverage starts in different years by dataset; recent cyclone seasons are explicitly described as provisional.
Field notes
The map offers a circle or country/region selection, then lets readers move between recent windows and compare a selected year with earlier ones. Its categories span sudden events and slower environmental indicators, including earthquakes, wildfires, droughts, coral heat stress, and surface pH. Source notes specify different data windows: earthquakes begin in 1990, cyclone tracks in 2000, and the described wildfire events in 2017.
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