{"id":9917,"date":"2026-04-02T00:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:24:49","slug":"animated-maps-show-real-time-global-air-temperatures-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9917","title":{"rendered":"Animated maps show real-time global air temperatures, pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>A typical map of temperatures across the planet shows just a snapshot in time, listing the day\u2019s various highs and lows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>But temperature isn\u2019t static; it rises and falls, and it\u2019s influenced by all sorts of systems, from ocean currents to solar radiation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An animated map from Maps.com shows those variations, revealing the patterns that swirl around our planet\u2014and depicting the gradual way Earth heats up from east to west as the sun rises and sets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/videos\/fpX3WEYc-afS6hazX.mp4\" playsinline=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">[Image: Maps.com]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The animated map is part of a new feature called Earth in Action, through which Maps.com (a platform by spatial analytics company Esri) produces daily, near real-time animated maps about Earth\u2019s systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>\u201cWe created Earth in Action to provide a lens into what\u2019s happening on our planet\u2014as it happens,\u201d Maps.com cartographic editor and Earth in Action creator Joshua Stevens says over email.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s something typical, like the current air temperature, or an extreme event like a major dust storm, we wanted to provide an opportunity for people to see them,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>By turning static data into moving animations, the maps reveal how interconnected Earth is, and how what happens on one part of the planet can influence another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91519865\/animated-maps-real-time-global-air-temperatures-pollution\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical map of temperatures across the planet shows just a snapshot in time, listing the day\u2019s various highs and lows.\u00a0 But temperature isn\u2019t static; it rises and falls, and it\u2019s influenced by all sorts of systems, from ocean currents to solar radiation.\u00a0 An animated map from Maps.com shows those variations, revealing the patterns that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brand-spotlights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}