Unpacking the record

01 · The land through time

Every month since 2017, in one block

The land is on top. Each layer under it is one month, with the first at the bottom. Turn it, cut into it, and go back to any month. Start with the steps below.

The land through timeDrag to turn it. Tap the top to cut there, or a wall to go back to that month.
This spot’s own record is just below the block ↓
Three things to try
  1. Drag to turn the block.
  2. Tap the top to cut down there and read that spot below.
  3. Tap a wall to go back to that month.
Building the block

This spot, month by month

tap the top of the block
02 · What changed

When each piece of ground changed

Where the land dropped to a new level and stayed there, or dropped and came back, the patch is marked with the window it happened in: the last clear look before and the first clear look after. 31 December 2020 is the date that deforestation-free supply rules look back to.

Where

over the land as it stands

When

each bar runs from the last clear look before to the first after
03 · The years

Every year, one under the other

Each row is a year, January to December. Rain for the area is on the left, the land on the right. Read down a column to compare the same weeks across the years.

Rain for the area

8-day totals
dry
heavy
low
high
04 · Seasons and rain

When the land wakes, and when it rests

05 · Across the land

How each part of the land behaves

Three readings for every patch of ground: how it moves through the year, whether it is greening or browning, and where water sits.

Through the year

Greening or browning

since 2018
browning
greening
06 · Every clear look

Every clear look, and what was usual

Each dot is one clear look at the land; fainter dots saw less of it. The line is the land, the dashed line its usual year. Below it, the land against its own normal, gold above and rust below, with the rain underneath.

07 · For the curious: the rhythm

Which cycles the land keeps

Read it left to right, from 2017 to today. Each row is a rhythm, from a few weeks at the bottom to two years at the top. A bright row means the land kept that rhythm in the two years around that date. Land that follows the rains burns one bright row at one year.

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the rhythm carries 60% or more of the change· gold line: strength of the yearly rhythm