Map of the Day: Where Malaria Has Been Defeated Mark Leon Goldberg November 19, 2018Today's map comes from the World Health Organization's flagship malaria report, which was released today. It shows the countries around the world that have defeated malaria, those that are on their way to eliminating malaria, and those in which malaria still r...
Map of the Day: Countries Where LGBTIQ Groups Are Banned Mark Leon Goldberg August 9, 2018Today's map comes from Outright International, a global LGBTIQ rights group. It shows countries where the legal registration of community groups that support LGBTIQ rights are curtailed by governments. As you can see, there is great ...
Map of the Day: Where Refugees Live Joanne Lu June 20, 2018Today’s map comes from the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the Tent Partnership for Refugees. It shows that as many as 2.1 million refugees of working age (18 to 59) live in major urban areas in developing countries. According to a report the two orga...
Map of the Day: Every Historic Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mark Leon Goldberg May 23, 2018Today's map comes from the World Health Organization, which released this graphic to help put into context the current ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.As you can see from this map, the DRC is no stranger to ebola outbreaks. This ...
Map of the Day: The Most Under-Reported Global Crises of 2017 Mark Leon Goldberg January 23, 2018Today's map is from the global humanitarian relief organization CARE International, which analyzed media coverage of global crises to determine the most under-covered man-made or natural disasters in 2017. Credit: CARE InternationalCARE says ...
Map of the Day: The Countries Where Pollution is Most Deadly Mark Leon Goldberg October 27, 2017Pollution is not just a nuisance. It can kill people--and by the millions. It also keeps countries worst affected by it poorer and unequal.A new study from The Lancet describes the severe, planetary-scale, harm caused by pollution. Some nine million people...
Map of the Day: The World’s Most Dangerous Megacities for Women Mark Leon Goldberg October 16, 2017Today's map comes from the Thompson Reuters Foundation, which launched a first-of-its kind poll ranking the world's megacities in terms of how hostile they are for women living in them.There are 19 megacities in the world, and in each of them the Foundatio...
Is Harvey the Latest Freakish Weather Event Linked to Climate Change? John Light August 24, 2017Houston is America's fourth largest city. It is currently being inundated with historic rainfall, stranding many thousands of people and upending one of the most important metropolitan areas in the country. Harvey, it seems, is yet another extreme weather even...
Map of the Day: What Countries Have Ratified The Paris Climate Agreement? Mark Leon Goldberg September 14, 2016Today's map comes from the World Resources Institute, which runs the ever helpful "Paris Agreement Tracker" that shows which countries, to data, have signed and ratified the Paris Climate Agreement which was adopted last year.The Paris Agreement is the wor...
