Ebb and Flow: A Day in the Life of Manhattan Traffic Charles Komanoff has spent three years building a model of the traffic patterns in New York City. The result [...]
The Global HIV/AIDS Timeline On June 5, 1981, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its first warning about a relatively rare form of pneumonia among a [...]
Faces of the Dead Each United States service member who has died in Iraq or Afghanistan and been identified by the Defense Department is represented by a small square to [...]
War with Iraq: Country factfile Iraq, a country half the size of Sweden, has a rich history going back 7,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. Modern Iraq was born from a [...]
Waterworld: How the ocean made us who we are The ocean has shaped human history in deep and surprising ways. In a cave off the coast of South Africa, a [...]
The Gulf’s silent environmental crisis Ten miles off the coast of Louisiana, where the air tastes like gasoline and the ocean looks like brownie batter, Louisiana State University professor Ed [...]
Arizona adopts controversial immigration enforcement law A series of events leading up to Arizona’s illegal immigration enforcement law. View the interactive graphic and timeline
The Final Moments A surge of natural gas exploded on the 32,000-ton Deepwater Horizon drilling platform on April 20, killing 11 of the 126 crewmembers aboard. View the interactive graphic
War Games: Seeing Iraq through the eyes of its children In Baghdad, the way children play often mirrors the world around them. AP photographer Hadi Mizban chronicles the evolution of [...]
The trail and trials of Charles Samuel Charles Samuel, who pleaded guilty Friday to the murder of 17-year old Lily Burk, has a criminal record that dates back more than [...]
Chance – An Interactive Series Dealing with Random Chance The Evolution Machine Chance of Death in America The Infinite Monkey Generator View the interactive graphic
Oil Primer: Where It Comes From, Where It Goes As the Deepwater Horizon continues to leak oil at a rapid rate, many people are asking whether we should be drilling [...]
Putting a lid on the leak BP is trying three strategies to stem the flow of crude oil from the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon about a mile beneath the [...]
What Texas Inmates Buy Inmates in Texas are allowed to buy common household goods from prison markets, known as commissaries. The following treemap visualizes nearly $100 million in purchases made [...]
Oil Spill Impacts Gulf States Federal officials shut down fishing from the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle on Sunday because of the uncontrolled gusher spewing massive amounts of oil [...]
What’s next for leaking well BP will attempt to plug the Gulf oil well by injecting heavy mud into it to reverse the flow so it can be capped. How [...]
US oil spill explained The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be three times larger than previously estimated, satellite images have showed. Images taken of the slick from a [...]
Tracking the Oil Spill in the Gulf The “estimated extent” of the oil slick is an estimate by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of where oil is mostly likely [...]
