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Mapped: What Did the World Look Like in the Last Ice Age?
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What Did the World Look Like in the Last Ice Age?
What did the world look like during the last ice age? Was it all endless glaciers and frozen ice? The answer is a partial yes—with some interesting caveats.
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), colloquially called the last ice age, was a period in Earth’s history that occurred roughly 26,000 to 19,000 years ago.
How EV Adoption Will Impact Oil Consumption (2015-2025P)
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The EV Impact on Oil Consumption
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As the world moves towards the electrification of the transportation sector, demand for oil will be replaced by demand for electricity.
Visualizing the Biomass of All the World’s Mammals
Visualizing the Biomass of All the World’s Mammals
Even as we understand more about the world we live in, certain aspects of it remain undefined or hard to comprehend.
One such example is in the scale and distribution of Earth’s life. What’s the ratio of wild to domesticated animals? How much do all of the world’s humans weigh?
Mapped: Air Pollution Levels Around the World in 2022
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Mapped: Air Pollution Levels Around the World
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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that air pollution leads to 7 million premature deaths every year.