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*Government* upper estimate
Amoco *Cadiz*
3rd *worst*
*Deepwater* Horizon

Goverment –> Government

It has only been 21 years since 1989, making it impossible to claim 30 years of devastation to wildlife from the Exxon/Valdez oil spill. ;)

Otherwise, nicely done. Simple, direct and easy to digest. The pink/red color throws me a little — it breaks up the images to avoid monotony, but I feel like the color wants to correlate something between each row but I fail to see it.

If I may, you are mixing up two shipwrecked supertankers:

Amoco Cadiz (not Caldiz) in 1978, lost 1.6 Million Barrels

and

Torrey Canyon in 1967, lost 740 000 Barrels

It’s truly sad how it has devastated the lives of hardworking people worldwide. I truly hope it can be resolved quickly because the various cities around the world will for some time feel its devastating impact. SAD. “Being Informed is Truly Beautiful “

It was the Amoco Cadiz (no L in there)

Great graphic. You may wish to edit it to read, “Third worst oil spill” instead of “third worse.”

I don’t think it’s been 30 years since the Exxon Valdez spill.

How about the continuous spills in the Niger Delta?

Here is an extract from this Guardian article:

One report, compiled by WWF UK, the World Conservation Union and representatives from the Nigerian federal government and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, calculated in 2006 that up to 1.5m tons of oil – 50 times the pollution unleashed in the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Alaska – has been spilled in the delta over the past half century. Last year Amnesty calculated that the equivalent of at least 9m barrels of oil was spilled and accused the oil companies of a human rights outrage.

That’s odd. Last time around the 19 gallons of fuel from your standard barrel of oil could fill two cars. Which certainly sits better with my experience of fuel tanks. Well, it’s probably more like a tank and a half, which would explain things, I suppose.

If you move to the north will increase. Loss in fact the same area of the map where you put it, what changes is the map for you! Google Maps, and many of the maps are used to seeing, to use something called a "Mercator projection" in order to draw a sphere on a flat surface. This projection distorts space, you move away from the equator, so nice to see a flat map.

Any chance we could have some beautiful data that isn’t about the environment at some point?

While the visualization is eye catching, perhaps a lyrical wordsmith can compliment it.

I truly hope it can be resolved quickly because the various cities around the world will for some time feel its devastating impact.

The pink/red color throws me a little — it breaks up the images to avoid monotony, but I feel like the color wants to correlate something between each row but I fail to see it.