The Atlas · from planet to street

The world's heat, then your street's.

Zoom from the planet down to the pavement. Inside a city, heat and green are the same map, inverted — and that mirror is the lever: greening the barest ground cools it, measurably.

The planet · every sampled country, by rise in heat since the 1940s

Hover for the number; click a country to open its 86-year curve.

The street · surface heat & ground green over the real map, ~330 m cells
Surface heatLandsat LST, °C
coolerhotter
Ground greenLandsat NDVI
barergreener
Basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors · water and clouds masked (transparent)

the mirror

Same map, inverted

The hot cells and the bare cells are the same cells. Across these cities the two grids correlate at r ≈ −0.8 — heat is where green isn't.

the lever

Cooling you can plant

The slope of that mirror says how much each unit of green cools the ground. It turns "plant trees" into a number a city can budget.