Anthropocene
GLOBAÏA's award-winning film on the Anthropocene, premiered at UN Rio+20.
Existential Risks
Visualizing existential risks to humanity — climate tipping points and nuclear threats.
Global Safety Net
Mapping how expanded nature conservation can reverse biodiversity loss globally.
Human Climate Niches
Visualizing how billions of people may be displaced from habitable climate zones.
Planetary Boundaries
Visualizing Earth's nine Planetary Boundaries and their safe operating limits.
Planetary Health Check
Visual identity and figures for the Planetary Health Check, tracking Earth's vital signs.
Planetary Lexicon
A dynamic glossary of key concepts in sustainability and Earth system science.
Planetary Tipping Systems
Visualizing climate tipping points and Earth's fragile thresholds, designed for PIK.
Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature
A global atlas of human heat stress — today and at +1.5, +2, and +3 °C of warming.
Earth System Boundaries
Science-based boundaries integrating justice, equity, and planetary stability.
Centre for Planetary Stewardship
A vision for a civic organ in every city: a public place where people come to perceive, understand, debate and care for the Earth system, with a forest court, a dome, a kitchen, an assembly hall and a situation room for the planet. Walk through it in 3D.
New Zealand — Conservation Land at Risk
An interactive satellite map of New Zealand's public conservation land — the mountains, forests, rivers and coast that the Conservation Amendment Bill could open to commercial use, exchange or sale.
The Planetary Observatory
Mission-control view of 51 planetary vital signs, from temperature to threatened species.
Planetary Sapience
Harnessing collective wisdom and global knowledge to achieve planetary equilibrium.
Nuclear Tests & Power Reactors
Every announced nuclear explosion since Trinity (1945), and every grid-scale reactor since Obninsk (1954). One timeline, two layers — the atomic age in full.
Carbon Bombs
The world's 599 largest fossil-fuel projects — each over a gigatonne of CO₂ — mapped on an interactive globe.
Planetary Education
An educational framework for the Anthropocene — integrating Earth system literacy, civic imagination, cultural plurality, ethical reflection, and action competence.
Powers of 10
From a single individual to ten billion people: 72 climate solutions mapped to the scales where they matter most.
The Earthshot Prize
GLOBAÏA's visuals for The Earthshot Prize BBC series with David Attenborough.
The Cosmic Year
13.8 billion years on a single calendar — zoom from the Big Bang to now.
AI Timeline
A deep timeline of artificial intelligence from antiquity to projected futures — with training compute, Moore's Law, task-horizon, benchmarks, context windows and inference cost.
Machine Intelligence Infrastructure
The global physical supply chain behind artificial intelligence, from quartz deposits to AI chatbots.
Planetary Health Check 2026
An interactive companion to the Planetary Health Check 2026 — Earth's nine Planetary Boundaries, seven of them breached.
Climate Change
A data visualization of IPCC findings on climate science for the UN Foundation.
Planetary Emergency
The interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and tipping points.
Two Clocks
Every Doomsday Clock setting since 1947 on one dial, beside a clock that keeps your time.
Atlas of the Cosmos
Explore 9 nested scales of the cosmos — from nearest stars to the universe.
Ecosphere
The interconnected web of biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere.
Explorations
Small experiments and interactive features — ideas, prototypes, curiosities.
Breaking Boundaries
GLOBAÏA's visualizations for the Netflix documentary narrated by Attenborough.
Antarctica
The mountains, lakes and ice rivers under Antarctica, and where the ice could tip.
The Great Acceleration
Exploring the rapid surge in human activity since the mid-20th century.
Water in the Anthropocene
How human activities transform Earth's global water cycle — produced for the UN in 2013.
Saprana
A living atlas of human wisdom — 394 entries across 9 domains through 8 visual views.
Antiquity
A field of 894 named authors from before 476 CE, across 17 cultures — each coloured by how much of their work survives, and joined by who taught whom.
Biocultural Diversity
Where the world's languages and vascular plants are richest — and where the two diversities overlap. A bivariate atlas of biocultural richness.
The Anthropocene Traps
14 evolutionary traps challenging global sustainability — a long-form reference based on Søgaard Jørgensen et al. (2023), with a particle simulation.
Nature Futures Framework
How do you envision the relationship between people and nature? Discover which Nature Future resonates with your values.
Powers of Two
The scale of artificial intelligence drawn to size: data and computing as nested squares, from one letter to all the AI chips sold so far, then on to the limits of physics.
AI Risks
A comprehensive dashboard mapping AI's planetary cost, safety benchmarks, incident tracking, and governance landscape.
Tipping Systems Interactive
Navigate the tipping elements of Earth's climate — thresholds, risks, and overshoot.
Planetary Boundaries Interactive
Explore all nine planetary boundaries — status, thresholds, and control variables.
A Geohistory of Life on Earth
4.5 billion years of biodiversity — from the first cells to the sixth mass extinction.
Simulated Universes
A gallery of 161 cosmological simulations, ancestors and codes, and the 101 sky surveys they are measured against, from Holmberg's light bulbs in 1941 to trillion-particle universes, with a 3D flight through a simulated twin of our cosmic neighbourhood.
Anthroposphere
Mapping humanity's built environment — cities, croplands, and infrastructure.
Regime Shifts
Earth's climate as valleys and ridges, and how a planet slips out of the Holocene.
Corridor of Life
1.2 million years of temperature — the stable corridor that made civilization.
Great Acceleration Interactive
Explore the Great Acceleration — 24 socioeconomic and Earth system trends since 1950.
Bestiary of AI
A field guide to 53 neural-network architectures — from the 1958 Perceptron to Diffusion Transformers, JEPA and Gated DeltaNet. Successor to the Neural Network Zoo.
The Anthropocene Equation
An interactive journey through the mathematics of planetary change. Human forces now dominate the Earth System.
Global Vertebrate Hotspots
Where the places that matter most for the world's land vertebrates meet the threats bearing down on them: an interactive atlas of the new hotspots.
Sfera — Earth in Spheres
If every drop of water, every breath of air, became a sphere, how big would it be?
An Urbanizing Planet
A film narrated by Edward Norton on global urbanization and its impact on biodiversity.
Age of Exponentials
Forty-eight Ages of a planetary century, traced through socio-economic and Earth-system proxies — from warheads to bisphenol-A.
How We Learned We Live on a Planet
The moments in which people grasped that they live on one finite world they are transforming: the slow planetarisation of human awareness, from Aboriginal fire to the first year above 1.5 °C.
The Holocene Interactive
Journey through 15,000 years of human history on a full-viewport timeline.
Essences
Where the world grows what it does not need to survive: wine, coffee, spice, scent.
InnerEarth
A journey to the center of our planet — from crust to inner core. Seismic stations, tectonic plates, and the deep structure beneath our feet.
National Geographic's Atlases
Cover imagery for the National Geographic Atlas of the World 10th Edition.
The Atlantic's Hidden Heartbeat — AMOC
An interactive exploration of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, its weakening, and the risk of collapse.
Homo sapiens
What does it mean to be Homo sapiens? An exploration of humanity's dual nature through taxonomy and etymology.
Our Work
Planetary visualizations, interactive tools, and science communication.
Anthropocene
GLOBAÏA's award-winning film on the Anthropocene, premiered at UN Rio+20.
Existential Risks
Visualizing existential risks to humanity — climate tipping points and nuclear threats.
Global Safety Net
Mapping how expanded nature conservation can reverse biodiversity loss globally.
Human Climate Niches
Visualizing how billions of people may be displaced from habitable climate zones.
Planetary Boundaries
Visualizing Earth's nine Planetary Boundaries and their safe operating limits.
Planetary Health Check
Visual identity and figures for the Planetary Health Check, tracking Earth's vital signs.
Planetary Lexicon
A dynamic glossary of key concepts in sustainability and Earth system science.
Planetary Tipping Systems
Visualizing climate tipping points and Earth's fragile thresholds, designed for PIK.
Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature
A global atlas of human heat stress — today and at +1.5, +2, and +3 °C of warming.
Earth System Boundaries
Science-based boundaries integrating justice, equity, and planetary stability.
Centre for Planetary Stewardship
A vision for a civic organ in every city: a public place where people come to perceive, understand, debate and care for the Earth system, with a forest court, a dome, a kitchen, an assembly hall and a situation room for the planet. Walk through it in 3D.
New Zealand — Conservation Land at Risk
An interactive satellite map of New Zealand's public conservation land — the mountains, forests, rivers and coast that the Conservation Amendment Bill could open to commercial use, exchange or sale.
The Planetary Observatory
Mission-control view of 51 planetary vital signs, from temperature to threatened species.
Planetary Sapience
Harnessing collective wisdom and global knowledge to achieve planetary equilibrium.
Nuclear Tests & Power Reactors
Every announced nuclear explosion since Trinity (1945), and every grid-scale reactor since Obninsk (1954). One timeline, two layers — the atomic age in full.
Carbon Bombs
The world's 599 largest fossil-fuel projects — each over a gigatonne of CO₂ — mapped on an interactive globe.
Planetary Education
An educational framework for the Anthropocene — integrating Earth system literacy, civic imagination, cultural plurality, ethical reflection, and action competence.
Powers of 10
From a single individual to ten billion people: 72 climate solutions mapped to the scales where they matter most.
The Earthshot Prize
GLOBAÏA's visuals for The Earthshot Prize BBC series with David Attenborough.
The Cosmic Year
13.8 billion years on a single calendar — zoom from the Big Bang to now.
AI Timeline
A deep timeline of artificial intelligence from antiquity to projected futures — with training compute, Moore's Law, task-horizon, benchmarks, context windows and inference cost.
Machine Intelligence Infrastructure
The global physical supply chain behind artificial intelligence, from quartz deposits to AI chatbots.
Planetary Health Check 2026
An interactive companion to the Planetary Health Check 2026 — Earth's nine Planetary Boundaries, seven of them breached.
Climate Change
A data visualization of IPCC findings on climate science for the UN Foundation.
Planetary Emergency
The interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and tipping points.
Two Clocks
Every Doomsday Clock setting since 1947 on one dial, beside a clock that keeps your time.
Atlas of the Cosmos
Explore 9 nested scales of the cosmos — from nearest stars to the universe.
Ecosphere
The interconnected web of biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere.
Explorations
Small experiments and interactive features — ideas, prototypes, curiosities.
Breaking Boundaries
GLOBAÏA's visualizations for the Netflix documentary narrated by Attenborough.
Antarctica
The mountains, lakes and ice rivers under Antarctica, and where the ice could tip.
The Great Acceleration
Exploring the rapid surge in human activity since the mid-20th century.
Water in the Anthropocene
How human activities transform Earth's global water cycle — produced for the UN in 2013.
Saprana
A living atlas of human wisdom — 394 entries across 9 domains through 8 visual views.
Antiquity
A field of 894 named authors from before 476 CE, across 17 cultures — each coloured by how much of their work survives, and joined by who taught whom.
Biocultural Diversity
Where the world's languages and vascular plants are richest — and where the two diversities overlap. A bivariate atlas of biocultural richness.
The Anthropocene Traps
14 evolutionary traps challenging global sustainability — a long-form reference based on Søgaard Jørgensen et al. (2023), with a particle simulation.
Nature Futures Framework
How do you envision the relationship between people and nature? Discover which Nature Future resonates with your values.
Powers of Two
The scale of artificial intelligence drawn to size: data and computing as nested squares, from one letter to all the AI chips sold so far, then on to the limits of physics.
AI Risks
A comprehensive dashboard mapping AI's planetary cost, safety benchmarks, incident tracking, and governance landscape.
Tipping Systems Interactive
Navigate the tipping elements of Earth's climate — thresholds, risks, and overshoot.
Planetary Boundaries Interactive
Explore all nine planetary boundaries — status, thresholds, and control variables.
A Geohistory of Life on Earth
4.5 billion years of biodiversity — from the first cells to the sixth mass extinction.
Simulated Universes
A gallery of 161 cosmological simulations, ancestors and codes, and the 101 sky surveys they are measured against, from Holmberg's light bulbs in 1941 to trillion-particle universes, with a 3D flight through a simulated twin of our cosmic neighbourhood.
Anthroposphere
Mapping humanity's built environment — cities, croplands, and infrastructure.
Regime Shifts
Earth's climate as valleys and ridges, and how a planet slips out of the Holocene.
Corridor of Life
1.2 million years of temperature — the stable corridor that made civilization.
Great Acceleration Interactive
Explore the Great Acceleration — 24 socioeconomic and Earth system trends since 1950.
Bestiary of AI
A field guide to 53 neural-network architectures — from the 1958 Perceptron to Diffusion Transformers, JEPA and Gated DeltaNet. Successor to the Neural Network Zoo.
The Anthropocene Equation
An interactive journey through the mathematics of planetary change. Human forces now dominate the Earth System.
Global Vertebrate Hotspots
Where the places that matter most for the world's land vertebrates meet the threats bearing down on them: an interactive atlas of the new hotspots.
Sfera — Earth in Spheres
If every drop of water, every breath of air, became a sphere, how big would it be?
An Urbanizing Planet
A film narrated by Edward Norton on global urbanization and its impact on biodiversity.
Age of Exponentials
Forty-eight Ages of a planetary century, traced through socio-economic and Earth-system proxies — from warheads to bisphenol-A.
How We Learned We Live on a Planet
The moments in which people grasped that they live on one finite world they are transforming: the slow planetarisation of human awareness, from Aboriginal fire to the first year above 1.5 °C.
The Holocene Interactive
Journey through 15,000 years of human history on a full-viewport timeline.
Essences
Where the world grows what it does not need to survive: wine, coffee, spice, scent.
InnerEarth
A journey to the center of our planet — from crust to inner core. Seismic stations, tectonic plates, and the deep structure beneath our feet.
National Geographic's Atlases
Cover imagery for the National Geographic Atlas of the World 10th Edition.
The Atlantic's Hidden Heartbeat — AMOC
An interactive exploration of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, its weakening, and the risk of collapse.
Homo sapiens
What does it mean to be Homo sapiens? An exploration of humanity's dual nature through taxonomy and etymology.
Our Work
Planetary visualizations, interactive tools, and science communication.
Anthropocene
GLOBAÏA's award-winning film on the Anthropocene, premiered at UN Rio+20.
Existential Risks
Visualizing existential risks to humanity — climate tipping points and nuclear threats.
Global Safety Net
Mapping how expanded nature conservation can reverse biodiversity loss globally.
Human Climate Niches
Visualizing how billions of people may be displaced from habitable climate zones.
Planetary Boundaries
Visualizing Earth's nine Planetary Boundaries and their safe operating limits.
Planetary Health Check
Visual identity and figures for the Planetary Health Check, tracking Earth's vital signs.
Planetary Lexicon
A dynamic glossary of key concepts in sustainability and Earth system science.
Planetary Tipping Systems
Visualizing climate tipping points and Earth's fragile thresholds, designed for PIK.
Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature
A global atlas of human heat stress — today and at +1.5, +2, and +3 °C of warming.
Anthropocene
GLOBAÏA's award-winning film on the Anthropocene, premiered at UN Rio+20.
Existential Risks
Visualizing existential risks to humanity — climate tipping points and nuclear threats.
Global Safety Net
Mapping how expanded nature conservation can reverse biodiversity loss globally.
Human Climate Niches
Visualizing how billions of people may be displaced from habitable climate zones.
Planetary Boundaries
Visualizing Earth's nine Planetary Boundaries and their safe operating limits.
Planetary Health Check
Visual identity and figures for the Planetary Health Check, tracking Earth's vital signs.
Planetary Lexicon
A dynamic glossary of key concepts in sustainability and Earth system science.
Planetary Tipping Systems
Visualizing climate tipping points and Earth's fragile thresholds, designed for PIK.
Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature
A global atlas of human heat stress — today and at +1.5, +2, and +3 °C of warming.
Earth System Boundaries
Science-based boundaries integrating justice, equity, and planetary stability.
Centre for Planetary Stewardship
A vision for a civic organ in every city: a public place where people come to perceive, understand, debate and care for the Earth system, with a forest court, a dome, a kitchen, an assembly hall and a situation room for the planet. Walk through it in 3D.
New Zealand — Conservation Land at Risk
An interactive satellite map of New Zealand's public conservation land — the mountains, forests, rivers and coast that the Conservation Amendment Bill could open to commercial use, exchange or sale.
The Planetary Observatory
Mission-control view of 51 planetary vital signs, from temperature to threatened species.
Planetary Sapience
Harnessing collective wisdom and global knowledge to achieve planetary equilibrium.
Nuclear Tests & Power Reactors
Every announced nuclear explosion since Trinity (1945), and every grid-scale reactor since Obninsk (1954). One timeline, two layers — the atomic age in full.
Carbon Bombs
The world's 599 largest fossil-fuel projects — each over a gigatonne of CO₂ — mapped on an interactive globe.
Planetary Education
An educational framework for the Anthropocene — integrating Earth system literacy, civic imagination, cultural plurality, ethical reflection, and action competence.
Powers of 10
From a single individual to ten billion people: 72 climate solutions mapped to the scales where they matter most.
The Earthshot Prize
GLOBAÏA's visuals for The Earthshot Prize BBC series with David Attenborough.
The Cosmic Year
13.8 billion years on a single calendar — zoom from the Big Bang to now.
AI Timeline
A deep timeline of artificial intelligence from antiquity to projected futures — with training compute, Moore's Law, task-horizon, benchmarks, context windows and inference cost.
Machine Intelligence Infrastructure
The global physical supply chain behind artificial intelligence, from quartz deposits to AI chatbots.
Planetary Health Check 2026
An interactive companion to the Planetary Health Check 2026 — Earth's nine Planetary Boundaries, seven of them breached.
Climate Change
A data visualization of IPCC findings on climate science for the UN Foundation.
Planetary Emergency
The interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and tipping points.
Two Clocks
Every Doomsday Clock setting since 1947 on one dial, beside a clock that keeps your time.
Atlas of the Cosmos
Explore 9 nested scales of the cosmos — from nearest stars to the universe.
Ecosphere
The interconnected web of biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere.
Explorations
Small experiments and interactive features — ideas, prototypes, curiosities.
Breaking Boundaries
GLOBAÏA's visualizations for the Netflix documentary narrated by Attenborough.
Antarctica
The mountains, lakes and ice rivers under Antarctica, and where the ice could tip.
The Great Acceleration
Exploring the rapid surge in human activity since the mid-20th century.
Water in the Anthropocene
How human activities transform Earth's global water cycle — produced for the UN in 2013.
Saprana
A living atlas of human wisdom — 394 entries across 9 domains through 8 visual views.
Antiquity
A field of 894 named authors from before 476 CE, across 17 cultures — each coloured by how much of their work survives, and joined by who taught whom.
Biocultural Diversity
Where the world's languages and vascular plants are richest — and where the two diversities overlap. A bivariate atlas of biocultural richness.
The Anthropocene Traps
14 evolutionary traps challenging global sustainability — a long-form reference based on Søgaard Jørgensen et al. (2023), with a particle simulation.
Nature Futures Framework
How do you envision the relationship between people and nature? Discover which Nature Future resonates with your values.
Powers of Two
The scale of artificial intelligence drawn to size: data and computing as nested squares, from one letter to all the AI chips sold so far, then on to the limits of physics.
AI Risks
A comprehensive dashboard mapping AI's planetary cost, safety benchmarks, incident tracking, and governance landscape.
Tipping Systems Interactive
Navigate the tipping elements of Earth's climate — thresholds, risks, and overshoot.
Planetary Boundaries Interactive
Explore all nine planetary boundaries — status, thresholds, and control variables.
A Geohistory of Life on Earth
4.5 billion years of biodiversity — from the first cells to the sixth mass extinction.
Simulated Universes
A gallery of 161 cosmological simulations, ancestors and codes, and the 101 sky surveys they are measured against, from Holmberg's light bulbs in 1941 to trillion-particle universes, with a 3D flight through a simulated twin of our cosmic neighbourhood.
Anthroposphere
Mapping humanity's built environment — cities, croplands, and infrastructure.
Regime Shifts
Earth's climate as valleys and ridges, and how a planet slips out of the Holocene.
Corridor of Life
1.2 million years of temperature — the stable corridor that made civilization.
Great Acceleration Interactive
Explore the Great Acceleration — 24 socioeconomic and Earth system trends since 1950.
Bestiary of AI
A field guide to 53 neural-network architectures — from the 1958 Perceptron to Diffusion Transformers, JEPA and Gated DeltaNet. Successor to the Neural Network Zoo.
The Anthropocene Equation
An interactive journey through the mathematics of planetary change. Human forces now dominate the Earth System.
Global Vertebrate Hotspots
Where the places that matter most for the world's land vertebrates meet the threats bearing down on them: an interactive atlas of the new hotspots.
Sfera — Earth in Spheres
If every drop of water, every breath of air, became a sphere, how big would it be?
An Urbanizing Planet
A film narrated by Edward Norton on global urbanization and its impact on biodiversity.
Age of Exponentials
Forty-eight Ages of a planetary century, traced through socio-economic and Earth-system proxies — from warheads to bisphenol-A.
How We Learned We Live on a Planet
The moments in which people grasped that they live on one finite world they are transforming: the slow planetarisation of human awareness, from Aboriginal fire to the first year above 1.5 °C.
The Holocene Interactive
Journey through 15,000 years of human history on a full-viewport timeline.
Essences
Where the world grows what it does not need to survive: wine, coffee, spice, scent.
InnerEarth
A journey to the center of our planet — from crust to inner core. Seismic stations, tectonic plates, and the deep structure beneath our feet.
National Geographic's Atlases
Cover imagery for the National Geographic Atlas of the World 10th Edition.
The Atlantic's Hidden Heartbeat — AMOC
An interactive exploration of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, its weakening, and the risk of collapse.
Homo sapiens
What does it mean to be Homo sapiens? An exploration of humanity's dual nature through taxonomy and etymology.