EARTH · STORYMAPS
Guided Journeys Across the Live Planet
A StoryMap is a route, not an article. You scroll; the globe travels with you, flying from place to place and switching on the layers each stop is about — live earthquakes, the cables on the seabed, the cloud field overhead. Every figure carries its source and its date, and where the data is genuinely live, it says so.
A guided lap of the Pacific rim, with the last 24 hours of real earthquakes drawn live underneath.
10 STOPSLIVE LAYEREsri World Imagery · USGS
EARTH · STORYMAPThe Cables That Carry the InternetFollow the glass threads on the seabed that carry almost everything you do online — and see where they are dangerously thin.
7 STOPSEsri World Imagery · TeleGeography
How it works
The globe stays fixed at the top of the screen while the chapters scroll past. Reach a new stop and the map flies there on its own. Nothing to click, and it works the same on a phone.
A story doesn’t get its own private illustrations. It switches on the same live layers the main map uses, credited on screen, with a LIVE tag only where the feed genuinely updates in real time.
Each figure shows its source and the date it refers to. Where a widely-repeated statistic doesn’t hold up, we say that too rather than repeat it.
Want the idea behind the format, and how to read one?
Explore it yourself
Where the stories end: around 70 live layers on one globe, yours to switch on and off.
EARTH · LAYER SWIPETwo layers, side by sideDrag a divider to wipe live clouds off the satellite ground beneath them.
EARTH · MOTION CLIPSTake a piece of it with youRender a layer in motion and download it as a looping GIF.