The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
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Photographers, videographers, coders and designers in the NPR newsroom.
COMIC: The roadside marker unlocking a forgotten civil rights murder
In 1963, William Lewis Moore was murdered in Alabama while on a civil rights protest walk. Silence around the murder bothered one man for years, until he campaigned to put up a marker about it.
Curious, fascinating and offensive markers from around the U.S.
The U.S. marks the amazing, the curious and the problematic. Here are some samples.
COMIC: Our sun was born with thousands of other stars. Where did they all go?
Our sun was born in a cosmic cradle with thousands of other stars. Astrophysicists say they want to find these siblings in order to help answer the question: Are we alone out there?
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On The Team Blog
May 29, 2024
How I make news comics
William L. Moore was murdered on a civil rights protest walk. Here's how I made a comic about one man's campaign to create a marker about it.
February 12, 2024
How we used gigabytes of shipping data to show risks to endangered whales
The Rice’s whales’ habitat in the Gulf of Mexico is a thoroughfare of massive, fast-moving ships. Here’s how we analyzed and visualized the potential impact of those ships.
October 01, 2021
Building a beautiful and clear map from massive, complex data
How we made the fire interval return map for our recent project about wildfire risk.