How Green Is Your Internet? When you use the internet have you thought just how much energy you’re using? This story may give you some idea of just how much [...]
An interactive graphic earthquake primer A quake occurs when the blocks of earth that make up the sides of a fault suddenly slip. Before the slip, stresses in the earth’s [...]
WaterLife – The Story of the Last Great Supply of Fresh Drinking Water on Earth No matter where we live, the Great Lakes affect us all. And as species of [...]
The Secrets of a Passive House When completed, the Landau residence now under construction in Norwich, Vt., will be one of about a dozen buildings certified as “passive houses” in [...]
How Much Is Left? The Limits of Earth’s Resources, Made Interactive This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, “How Much Is Left?,” which appears in the [...]
Harness the wind Small wind turbines designed for people’s backyards can lower electric bills up to 90 percent, but they are not for everyone. View the multimedia learning project
Tracking Our Toxic Asset Planet Money is committed to following the financial crisis to the bitter end. And what better way to do that than to own a piece of [...]
The Rise and Disappearance of Southeast Louisiana The Mississippi River built Southeast Louisiana over 7,000 years. Human intervention since the 1930s is fast undoing this process. View the multimedia storytelling [...]
When will Las Vegas run out of water? With the expected changes in climate and no change in future water usage, Lake Mead could run dry by 2021. View the [...]
How much oil? As of May 9, an estimated 3.5 million gallons of oil ha spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20 explosioin on the Deepwater Horizon [...]
Green Giant Trans National Place won’t just be the city’s tallest building, it will be the most earth-friendly skyscraper you’ve ever seen. View the interactive graphics
Where Weedkiller Won’t Work Farmers’ wide use of Roundup, also known as glyphosate, a popular herbicide, has led to the spread of Roundup-resistant weeds across the country. At least 10 [...]
The Street of the Future is a Livable Street Streets can and must be more than just a place for the movement and storage of private motor vehicles. View the [...]
Icelandic Volcano Disrupts Air Travel A volcano erupting in Iceland has sent particles of ash drifting to parts of Europe, forcing air-traffic controllers to close airspace to commercial aircraft and [...]
P.O.V.’s Borders What is a border? How much is real, and how much is in your mind? ‘P.O.V.’s Borders’ is an on-going web-original series that explores the borders in our [...]
What Causes Earthquakes – MSNBC Interactive Faults likely to cause another earthquake sometime in the future. Faults are considered active if they have moved sometime in the last 10,000 years. [...]
How Much H20 is Embedded in Everyday Life? You might be surprised at how much water it takes to bring that hamburger to your plate or to make your favorite [...]
Representations of the world map The way in which historically have represented the territories of the planet is based on the projection of the celestial sphere, a method created in [...]
National Geographic’s Remote Imaging Team Needs You! We work with researchers around the world to tackle conservation mysteries and other scientific puzzles. To do so, we custom-design a Crittercam for [...]
Climate change: The carbon atlas New figures confirm that China has overtaken the US as the largest emitter of CO2. This interactive emissions map shows how the rest of the [...]
