Little Pictures Gallery

A showcase of data-driven Little Pictures of climate

Welcome to our gallery featuring a collection of Little Pictures!

These data-driven images provide a visual narrative. They distil complex science and aim to highlight our climate's recent evolution. Little Pictures have the power to raise awareness, stimulate and prompt climate action.

Little Pictures use satellite-derived climate data records from the European Space Agency, EUMETSAT and reanalyses from ECWMF Copernicus Climate Change Service.

We are proud to showcase the winning entry to the 2023 'Little Pictures of Climate' competition, entitled 'Urban and rainforest regions in Brazil' by France-based science illustrator, Sacha Berna - along with ten impressive runners up and join our existing stable of Little Pictures.

If you want to make a big difference with Little Pictures of climate, explore our step-by-step tutorials.

Little Picture - Urban and Rainforest regions in Brazil
global mean sea level
Little Picture - Burned Area in Europe
Little Picture - Global monthly temperature from 1940 to 2023
Little Picture - Arctic Sea Ice Decline 2022 vs 1980
Little Picture - World land composition
Little Picture - Arctic sea ice loss
Little Picture - Arctic sea ice extent
Little Picture - Global lake area represented as a drop of water
Little Picture - Atmospheric carbon dioxide over Europe 2014-2021
Little Picture - Swiss glacier reduction

More Little Pictures

The data-driven visualisations were developed by a group of creatives to explore and kick-start the concept of data-driven climate visualisations.

essential variables
global mean sea level
sea ice loss
fire fingerprints
Leaning Tower of Sea Level
tree loss vs tree gain
fire streamograph
coastal sea level
fire bubbles
lakes by count
GHG inversion
reduction in sea ice timeline
climate connections
fire diamonds
CO2 spiral
sea surface temperature

Create your own Little Picture

Want to create your own Little Picture of climate? Check out our step-by-step tutorials

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