Adam
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New York City’s earliest sunset this winter comes at 4:28 pm, and it arrives around December 8. By the winter solstice on December 21, sunset has already slipped to about 4:32. On New Year’s Day it comes at 4:39. That pattern holds across the country. The shortest day and the […]
A map of the five largest container shipping companies (MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, COSCO and Hapag-Lloyd) and the main trade lanes they run.
A 2025 world map of coal power by country: who is still setting records, who has cut coal generation sharply, and who has shut it off.
A map of passenger cars per 1,000 residents in 305 regions of 39 European countries in 2024. Italy and Finland lead, while Turkey, Kosovo and London sit near the bottom.
Maps and a 2002–2025 animation of every state's top export buyer and biggest export, from Census data.
A map of more than 165,000 U.S. post offices from 1639 to 2000, from Boston's colonial tavern to Hinsdale, N.H., Hawaii and Barrow, Alaska.
Which month brings the most rain where you live? A county map of the wettest month of the year across the US, from 1991–2020 NOAA data.
A map of 68,000 US tornadoes since 1950 shows where they hit after sunset. In Dixie Alley, nearly half arrive in the dark.
A map of Streight's Raid, the 1863 Union mule-mounted raid across North Alabama, and Nathan Bedford Forrest's two-week pursuit to Cedar Bluff.
