Resource Watch

Resource Watch, World Resources Institute

Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet's resources and citizens. Users can visualize challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration.

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This source allows users to interact with global data sets from a variety of sectors including but not limited to climate, energy, land cover, and water. Each map contains further information about the data, sources of the data, and citations for data. Each data set also has a section dedicated to cautions of using the data set. Resource developed in collaboration with expert scientists - no CLEAN expert science review was needed.