Map from reddit

The map above compares the number of hours of sunshine per year in Europe compared to the United States. What’s really surprising is just how much more sun the US gets on average compared to Europe.

This is of course due to the fact that Europe is actually quite a bit further north than most people think.

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Map created by Visualcapitalist.com

The map above was created Visualcapitalist.com to highlight the plight of the 1.2 billion people worldwide (16% of the world’s population) without access to electricity using data from the World Bank from 2017.

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Map created by 911 MetallurgistThe map above is a catogram that resizes the world’s countries by the amount of natural gas they produce. The data is from 2017 and comes from the CIA, ENI and BP.

The top 10 natural gas producers as of 2017 are:

1. United States of America
2. Russia
3. Iran
4. Canada
5. Qatar
6. China
7. Norway
8. Australia
9. Saudi Arabia
10. Algeria

You can see an animated map and full stats for the world’s countries below:

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Found via reddit

The animated map above shows the radioactive cloud that moved through Europe following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on 26 April 1986. The Chernobyl accident remains the worst nuclear accident in history and is one of only two events classified as a “level 7 major accident” (the other being the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan).

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Map created by Climate AnalyticsThe map above shows a plan to phase out coal power stations across the EU from 2017 to 2031. As of July 2016, there were still 300 coal power plants operating in the EU.

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