Altered Maps XVIII: Continuing Curious Cartography

[Bonyduck Campersang]

here it's the opposite side of the conversation: "did I speak in Persian?"

Also, what's up with Bulgarians and Patagonians?

 

[r16]

literally the end of the world , when you look from this side of the map . They hate Russians according to what my remembers from the 1960s so maybe they found some other side of the map , China being far away from all those Warsaw Pact countries , newer minding the further West ...

 

[Samson]

60 percent of the world’s land area is in a precarious state

This map displays global functional biosphere integrity maps and timelines from 1600 to 2014, including risk for biosphere destabilization (EcoRisk), human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP), and derived planetary boundary metrics developed in Stenzel et al. 2025: Breaching planetary boundaries. The metrics are based on simulations with the vegetation model LPJmL. The thresholds determining the risk-level for the planetary boundary are (safe/intermediate; intermediate/high risk): HANPPHol (0.05; 0.23), EcoRisk (0.35; 0.55).

There is an interactive version here

 

[Samson]

 

[Birdjaguar]

There is more to the Hawaiian Islands that lies under water. The volcanic hotspot that built the islands is stationery as the Pacific Plate moves further west, building newer islands to the east. Mauna Loa and Kilauea on the Big Island are currently active volcanoes with their most recent lava flows shown in red. The island was built from five different volcanoes. Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea are the largest and both are over 13,000 feet in elevation from the ocean. Their peaks are over 31,000 feet from the ocean bottom. The next island (or an expansion of the Big Island) is still under water just 22 miles off the southeast coast and is named Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaʻehuakanaloa_Seamount Loihi.

 

[stfoskey12]

60 percent of the world’s land area is in a precarious state

This map displays global functional biosphere integrity maps and timelines from 1600 to 2014, including risk for biosphere destabilization (EcoRisk), human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP), and derived planetary boundary metrics developed in Stenzel et al. 2025: Breaching planetary boundaries. The metrics are based on simulations with the vegetation model LPJmL. The thresholds determining the risk-level for the planetary boundary are (safe/intermediate; intermediate/high risk): HANPPHol (0.05; 0.23), EcoRisk (0.35; 0.55).

There is an interactive version here

What's up with that random green spot in Kansas?

 

[Samson]

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.