The United States Disappeared Tracker is a new Tableau visualization from Danielle Harlow. It shows where people have been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This map is part of a dashboard that “visualizes person brought into ICE custody when the trump Administration has demonstrated undeniable political motive/animus and/or the person has been denied appropriate due process, even if the charges are eventually substantiated in a court of law.“  Being a dashboard, there are also charts and lists of the disappeared.  You can also hover over the map for details on some of the incidents.  The data sources are not clear but 370 people just in Massachusetts? The author is also working on an ICE Flights Tracker.

The two previous GeoCurrents posts examined the biological significance of continents by looking at the distribution of animals. It is time now to turn out attention to plants. One of the most influential divisions of the world into “floristic kingdoms” is that of botanist Ronald Good, found in his 1947 book The Geography of Flowering […] The post Floristic Kingdoms and the Architecture of Continents appeared first on GeoCurrents.