Benjamin Hennig

Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised How anti-immigration politics across the EU clashes with demographic reality

Demographic Change: Europe's Population Trends Visualised www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... (nice data visualisation, but an unnecessary over-use of the word crisis, dear @theguardian.com)

Who Feeds The World?

Who Feeds the World? Find out at BragaGarour, the Icelandic Slow Food Festival this weekend at Grasagaröinum. Among the displays will be our FoodMapper Quiz, checking your knowledge of the world of food with over 200 maps! slowfood.is/bragdagardur...

Broken News: The Global State of Press Freedom journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Stateless and Scattered: Mapping the Palestinian Diaspora journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage.

Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Generative AI is not a ‘calculator for words’. 5 reasons why this idea is misleading Big tech wants generative AI systems to seem like neutral, reliable tools – but the reality is far more complicated.

Generative AI is not a ‘calculator for words’ theconversation.com/generative-a...

Global Science Equity Survey Why this research? This is a survey about the participation of researchers, especially female researchers, from the whole world in the international academic system. It aims to explore problems in "G...

Global Science Equity Survey: Participate if you are in science and academia! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Basemap World: a sleek, vector-based web map service with global and German data - interactive, customisable, and quite up-to-date basemap.de/produkte-und...

Lunchtime update by the MetOffice: 'Latest observations show that the eruption is no longer confined to a single fissure. The larger fissure at the Sundhnúka crater row is estimated to be about 2.4 km long. A smaller fissure has also opened west of Fagradalsfjall [estimated] about 500 meters long.'

YouTube video by RÚV Grindavik - Mosaic

The RUV webcams also provide live views of the eruption for all those who can’t be here youtu.be/kXD4A9uFHcg

Eruption in Reykjanes peninsula — Awful air quality in Reykjanesbær - RÚV.is Eruption started shortly before 04:00 am.Wave of seismic activity started around midnight, caused by magma intrusion.Grindavík is not in danger.Awful air quality in Reykjanesbær.

National broadcaster RUV has an english blog with live updates www.ruv.is/english/2025...

Gas pollution cam be expected locally although the capital region is currently not in the path of gas dispersion from the eruption en.vedur.is/volcanoes/fa...

The road to Grindavík has been closed by the authorities, but visitors should be able to get a glimpse of the eruption from Reykjanesbraut, the main road connecting the international airport of Keflavík with the capital Reykjavík umferdin.is/en

The eruption was preceded by a series of earthquake tremors since midnight that indicated an increased activity close to the surface en.vedur.is/earthquakes-...

Tourist eruption? The Reykjanes Peninsula has finally decided again to continue its eruption series at the height of the tourist season, The latest eruption in Iceland started at 3.57am last night en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

Draw your own chart game: oil prices Test your knowledge of how oil prices have been affected by previous crises in the Middle East

Draw your own chart game: oil prices www.ft.com/content/c618...

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ISLAS 2025 🏝️ Westfjords Edition 🏔️
Our Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability summer school finally made it to Iceland! 🇮🇸 It was an inspiring week exploring Remote Communities in Transition @haskoliislands.bsky.social / @islandsmaster.bsky.social
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The Illusion of Causality in Charts How charts can mislead us by depicting causes that may not exist.

The Illusion of Causality in Charts: How charts can mislead us by depicting causes that may not exist filwd.substack.com/p/the-illusi...

How much energy are you using on AI? www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-ener...

Cross Stitch Land Cover Map of Iceland www.linkedin.com/posts/jjmcf_...

Climate change drives record-breaking heat in Iceland and Greenland challenging cold adapted ecosystems and societies www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

UK Travel Visualiser - a neat little mapping project smstone0.github.io#/uk-map

Very interesting indeed, not least within the context of our @islandsmaster.bsky.social Master programme!

A whole new volcanic hazard map for the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been published by the Icelandic Met Office (Veðurstofa Íslands). Find out more about the redesign at en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

The RUV livestreams should give a good view when (if) the eruption reaches the surface: www.youtube.com/live/kXD4A9u...

Is it there yet? It looks as if the next volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland is just about to begin. www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...

Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava Hilo office, with scientists and their volcano-monitoring equipment, may have lease cancelled from Doge cuts

Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...