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Explore the World through Data & Simulations 🌍🏔️
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Species Observation Service, Butterflies of Ireland, iNaturalist. Own analysis and model;
• Relief: ETOPO 2022, NOAA NCEI (CC0) · Land & borders: Natural Earth
• Photo: Romzig, Wikimedia Commons, CC0, cropped
• Not endorsed by GBIF, the data publishers or NOAA

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Painted Ladies 🦋 The longest butterfly migration reaches Europe

#paintedlady #butterfly #butterflies #insectmigration #migration #europe #map

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📊 Data Sources:
• Butterfly reports: GBIF Occurrence Download DOI 10.15468/dl.utdtm7 (10 Nov 2026), 2,237 datasets under CC0 and CC BY 4.0, among them UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, info fauna (Swiss National Fauna Databank), NABU|naturgucker, Artportalen, Norwegian

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📊 Data Sources:
• Built-up surface and settlement model: European Union, GHSL R2023A (CC BY 4.0)
• Country borders: Natural Earth (public domain)

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Russia vs China: Which country is more built-up? 🏙️

#countries #urban #geography #urbanization #russia #china

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📊 Data Sources: • Elevation: SRTM v4.1 © CGIAR-CSI (CC-BY 4.0) / ETOPO 2022 (NOAA, Public Domain) • Boundaries & Water: Natural Earth (Public Domain)

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The Rise and Fall of Homo Erectus🌍🧭#history #homoerectus #geography

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A visual reconstruction of Homo erectus' journey across the world. Due to gaps in the fossil record, some migration routes and timelines are based on scientific interpretations.
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The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM™-90.

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What if a tsunami hit Estonia? A 500 m wave, simulated on real terrain.
Simulation, not a real event.

#tsunami #geography #simulation

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Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM™-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

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Terrain-aware fictional simulation for education and entertainment, not a forecast or warning.
Data: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ETOPO 2022 (NOAA, Public Domain), Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHS-UCDB, EC JRC (CC BY 4.0)

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One year on Mars: surface temperature through the seasons

Data:
MGS Thermal Emission Spectrometer albedo and thermal inertia: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU (public domain)
MOLA elevation (MEGDR): NASA/GSFC (public domain)
Map and model: https://t.co/qReAmpwTGv

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@Business660608 hard one!

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@NatureRoot88 somewhere in croatia. split?

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• Vegetation and ice sheets before 10,000 BC: Krapp, M. et al. (2021), Terrestrial climate of the last 800,000 years (CC BY 4.0), doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/8N43X

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300,000 Years of People: Where humans lived, from the first Homo sapiens to 8 billion 🌍

#history #population #humanevolution #map #geography #prehistory

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• Land and lakes: Natural Earth (public domain)
• Arrival dates and population estimates from published research: Sjödin et al. 2012, Gautney & Holliday 2015, Tallavaara et al. 2015, Ragsdale et al. 2023, Sümer et al. 2025

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📊 Data Sources:
• Population: HYDE 3.2.1, Klein Goldewijk et al. (2017), PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (CC0)
• Sea level: Spratt, R. M. & Lisiecki, L. E. (2016), Climate of the Past 12, NOAA NCEI Paleoclimatology
• Relief: ETOPO 2022, NOAA (public domain)