Independent journalist mapping environmental change with satellite imagery and GIS. Headed a news bureau at a national daily previously.
Joined June 2013
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A satellite dataset has revealed that the tallest trees in the Great Nicobar project area are in the 50 to 64 metre range. How many of them will escape the axe? My article for @frontline_india
Frontline: #Nicobar #environment #deforestation #remotesensing
NEW | Giant forest trees threatened by Great Nicobar mega project
Satellite data reveals the existence of thousands of tall trees in the earmarked area of the Great Nicobar Island Development Project. It is unclear how many of them will be safeguarded.
T. Ramachandran writes.
frontline.thehindu.com/envir…
This paper finds a connection between weather forecasting accuracy levels and economic inequalities. "A seven-day-ahead forecast in a high-income country is, on average, roughly as accurate as a one-day-ahead forecast in a low-income country." nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
From barren landscape to a sea of flowers. xitter.cf/CopernicusEU/status/21…
🌸🏜️ The Atacama Desert 🇨🇱 is blooming!
After exceptional winter rainfall, dormant seeds & bulbs have brought the rare Desierto Florido (“flowering desert”) back to life in 2026.
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 #ImageOfTheDay reveal the dramatic change.
🔗 eu-space.europa.eu/explore-e…
Kolkata and Bengaluru were found to have the highest number of lakes infested with water hyacinth. The researchers also studied lakes in Chennai, Mumbai, and Hyderabad. link.springer.com/article/10… #RemoteSensing #Geospatial
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“The fact that the UN is debating map projections for an entire hour is already totally thrilling for cartographers, and then it was our map projection. I mean, what else can you ask for?” theguardian.com/science/ng-i… #maps #GIS #cartography
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How the Indian subcontinent looks under the new Equal Earth map projection the UN just adopted #EqualEarth #Cartography #India #Maps
ALT The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed the Equal Earth projection, said to show the relative sizes of continents more faithfully than the familiar Mercator projection. This is how the Indian sub continent looks under it.
A map-based storytelling approach is the highlight of my article on the @MongabayIndia website: india.mongabay.com/2022/10/m…
India’s Rs 12,000-crore fund to fight air pollution is going up in smoke scroll.in/article/1009620/in… via @scroll_in
About how #datajournalism has been gaining in importance over the years: dtascribe.github.io/resource… #ddj #journalism
The perennial question: is coding an essential part of the #datajournalism skillset? My take: dtascribe.github.io/learning…
dtascribe.github.io/learning… - this page on my website contains #datajournalism learning resources for beginners #ddj #journalism.
My site, The Data Journalism Helpline is fully functional now: dtascribe.github.io/ More resources will be added in the coming days. #ddj #datajournalism #journalism
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I'm excited to finally share with you a four-part blog post series I've been working on in the last few months.
They all answer one question:
Which color scale should you use for which data?
Part 1 gives the overview I always wished I could link to:
blog.datawrapper.de/which-co…
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Treating a human head the way a globe is treated by the Mercator... dlvr.it/RqMxK6
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What does a responsible #COVID19 visualization look like? Great insights from @kanarinka: news.mit.edu/2020/catherine-…