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The azimuthal equal-area projects the sphere onto a disk and preserves area across the projection. You can display the whole planet, but latitudes far from the center get very distorted. The clipped two-hemisphere approach avoids the distortion and fits nicely on a phone.

I first saw this last year in a map by @bananafish.bsky.social. Not sure if he invented it or saw it somewhere else.

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A cylindrical or pseudocylindrical (in this case Patterson's Natural Earth) projection will start looking real scrunchy at around 600 pixels, but the stacked Lamberts work great down to 300 pixels — as narrow as you'll ever need.

🦋 The study didn't investigate causes, but habitat disruption and pesticides likely contributed to declines. Climate change may have played a role: species saw larger drops in the south of their ranges, suggesting northward migration w/ temp. increase.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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🦋 This is the first study to combine butterfly observations from thousands of surveys across the country to create a complete picture of U.S. butterfly trends.

Of 342 species, 245 suffered declines of at least 10 percent.

Read the story here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Update: The State Dept.'s plan to spend $400 million on armored Teslas, which was made after Trump was inaugurated but before he took office, has been suspended

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...