20 Jan 2026

Photo by Venti Views   Once seen as a remote and largely isolated Arctic territory, Greenland is rapidly emerging as a focal point of global geopolitics as climate change, melting ice and technological advances transform the island into a strategic hub. New shipping routes, vast mineral resources and growing rivalry between major powers, particularly the […]

07 Jun 2016

Global shipping in a narrated interactive map We’ve seen maps for global shipping routes before, but this project — Ship Map — by Kiln and the UCL Energy Institute makes the exploration more interactive and explanatory. https://flowingdata.com/2016/04/27/global-shipping-in-a-narrated-interactive-map/ There are a few different views with animated dots to represent moving ships, paths to show routes all […]