Earlier this spring, Google's Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg created a living wind map of the United States. The interactive graphic displays surface wind data from the National Digital ...

Earth’s wind patterns flow much in the same way as the oceans below them. This collaboration between Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg shows which way the winds ...

Wind power started in California in 1981 when the Altamont wind farm in Alameda County was built as a reaction to the Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970s. But now, as a new map released Thursday shows, the ...

As Flowing Data's Nathan Yau remarked earlier this week: "I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas. They rarely tweet, but when they do, it's usually ...

This weekend you watched ocean currents turn the Earth into a continuously evolving, geophysical Van Gogh painting. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-ocean-currents-turn ...

Strong winds on Thanksgiving that will dramatically alter Lake Erie's water level are now in the mix for Ohio's Thanksgiving ...

Around a year ago, a pair of Google researchers visualized the wind patterns throughout the United States. The interactive map was gorgeous, with wispy white lines swirling around the country in real ...

The US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System keeps track of the world’s weather. It’s an incredibly valuable repository of information, but its data, shown in DayGlo charts peppered with ...

A nationwide analysis by USA TODAY revealed a trend that threatens to derail U.S. clean energy goals: local governments are banning new utility-scale wind and solar power faster than they’re building ...

A paper highlights just how many jobs in a commuting zone are wind or solar based on job opening data. Places with higher shares of job postings that are wind tended to be down the middle of the US.

A new interactive map released Thursday shows the location of all the wind farms in the United States. Wind power started in California in 1981 when the Altamont wind farm in Alameda County was built ...