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Latest Visualizing Energy Data Stories

Population exposure to fine (PM2.5) particulate matter.

Visualizing Energy

Where Are People Most Exposed to Particulate Matter?

October 6th, 2025

Weekly data story from Visualizing Energy, a project of IGS. (October 6, 2025)

Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from renewable fuels.

Visualizing Energy

What Renewable Fuels Have the Largest Climate Benefit?

September 29th, 2025

Weekly data story from Visualizing Energy, a project of IGS. (September 29, 2025)

Power uprates for nuclear power plants in the United States.

Visualizing Energy

What is Nuclear Power Uprating and Why is it Important?

September 23rd, 2025

Weekly data story from Visualizing Energy, a project of IGS. (September 23, 2025)

Global cumulative nuclear reactor capacity additions, 1951-2023

Visualizing Energy

Global Nuclear Power Capacity Additions

September 18th, 2025

Weekly data story from Visualizing Energy, a project of IGS. (September 18, 2025)

Nuclear core melts and world reactor operating experience, 1955 - 2021

Visualizing Energy

What Do These Charts Say About the Safety of Nuclear Reactors?

August 25th, 2025 Read more

Access to safe drinking water, 2020

Visualizing Energy

What is the Relationship Between Energy Use and Access to Safe Water?

August 4th, 2025 Read more

Water consumption by electricity generation technology

Visualizing Energy

What Methods of Electricity Generation Use the Most Water?

July 28th, 2025 Read more

Carbon footprint of bank loans

Visualizing Energy

Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans

July 14th, 2025 Read more

Spotlight on Faculty Research

Person holding a sign at a protest that says "We Need a Change"

Filling the Gaps in Environmental Justice Data: The Role of Synthetic Populations

Tall national flags against a blue sky.

Technology, Geography and Collaboration Networks: Assessing Global Innovation and Research Funding Patterns for Carbon Removal

A city with factory pollution and smokestacks.

Community-Based Research Supports More Just and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization

Woman riding scooter in park

Realising a Locally-Embedded Just Transition: Sense of Place, Lived Experience, and Social Perceptions of Industrial Decarbonisation in the United Kingdom

Downtown Boston urban skyline.

Critically Reviewing the 50 Sociotechnical Risks of Building Sector Decarbonization: Conceptualizing Risk as a Proximity Spiral

Person holding a sign titled "we need change"

Compounding Injustices Can Impede a Just Energy Transition

A close-up image of the Sun.

Exploring Global Climate Intervention Experiments: Sociotechnical Promises, Innovation Dynamics, and Perceived Co-Impacts Across 20 Projects and Pilots

Large industrial factory machinery

Navigating Reconfiguration and Systems Disruption: Decarbonization Pathways for UK Industrial Clusters

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