How we're endangering species -- infographic

There's lots of cool stuff over at visual.ly to help us picture the world around us.


Here's a great infographic that summarizes the human impact on the environment and species. Overall: ouch!
(Unfortunately, the ones shown below are the marquee species... many less glamorous species are also suffering.)

by NatGeo.Browse more data visualization.

Largest Oil Spills in History

One thing that's great about this era of data visualization is the abundance of ways there are to look at data interactively. Here's a look at the largest oil spills since 1901. These are actual spills and blowouts and don't include equally catastrophic events like ongoing seepage or waste, which has taken such a toll on the Ecuadorean Amazon. Still, these are a bunch of black marks on the Earth and a reminder that it's time we reduced our consumption of fossil fuels such as oil before switching to alternative renewable green fuels.


via chartsbin.com