Infographic of the Day: An Atlas of the World's Ecosystems

A mammoth encyclopedia of where the earth's biodiversity dwells--and why it's under threat.

On April 22nd, the Nature Conservancy will release it's first Atlas of Global Conservation--a book of maps summarizing everything we know about nature on earth. No one's ever done that before. Three years of work went into producing it.

Just to create a single map of where the world's 828 freshwater bird species are found, the Washington Post reports, scientist Timothy Boucher spent two months reading...