THE VISUAL COLLECTION
Research maps and documentary scenes. Every image has a different purpose, place and evidence boundary.
Browse all maps, stories and tools ↗PLACES BEHIND THE MAP
Documentary scenes from Gaza, Ukraine and Yemen.
Each photograph records a particular place and date. Follow its regional entry to explore the environmental evidence, reporting periods and questions still open.
Documentary photograph · 7 August 2024
People in a damaged street after bombing in Deir al-Balah, as identified in the original UNRWA caption.
Photo: Ashraf Amra / UNRWA · Original & credit ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Documentary photograph · 22 March 2024
Debris inside a church in Kyiv following the 21 March 2024 missile strike, according to the photographer’s description.
Photo: Rasal Hague · Original & credit ↗ · CC BY 4.0
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Historical photograph · 21 April 2015
Residential damage near Attan following the 20 April 2015 airstrike, according to the photographer’s description.
Photo: Ibrahem Qasim · Original & credit ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Explore this regional entry ↗Photographs show dated scenes, not present-day conditions or measured chemical contamination. The Kyiv photograph is separate from the Kakhovka case in Ukraine’s brief; the Sana’a image predates the Yemen waste-sector report. Web display copies are resized and compressed with the complete frame retained. Original images and reuse terms are linked in each credit.
New research lab: Gaza environmental screening map ↗
Explore water, soil and habitat pathways. Exploratory spatial proximity and a separate evidence workspace; neither predicts contamination.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS / GAZA & NEVADA
Maps help frame environmental questions. Each map below represents a different kind of information, with its own limits.
Modeled lead concentration ranges by structural damage class. Model and map by Carrie A. Shuster. Values are estimates, not field measurements.
Research in progress. Building-damage dataset and assessment date pending verification. The buffers represent model assumptions; the map does not establish measured contamination or individual exposure.
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GIS mapping of historical nuclear-test locations and craters. Research screenshot supplied by Carrie A. Shuster.
Research in progress. This screenshot shows spatial context, not measured radiation or contaminant concentrations. Dataset references and mapping date are not yet documented here.
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LANDSCAPES / MATERIAL LEGACIES
A visible remnant is a starting point for investigation.
Environmental research asks what materials remain, how they interact with their surroundings, and what measurements can establish about their effects. A photograph records the visible landscape; chemical composition and exposure require further evidence.
Explore environmental pathways ↓THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT / HISTORICAL SCENES
Buildings, streets and cultural places are part of the landscape people return to.
HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH · 5 April 2012
Damaged buildings in the Bab Dreeb area of Homs, as identified by the photographer.
Photo: Bo yaser · Original & credit ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0
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HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH · 21 June 2017
Aerial view of the destroyed al-Nuri Mosque, identified in the source as the aftermath of its destruction by ISIS.
Photo: Operation Inherent Resolve / U.S. government · Original & credit ↗ · Public domain · U.S. government work
Follow the regional evidence ↗Homs (2012) and Mosul (2017) are historical context photographs. They depict different sites from Syria’s Orontes water assessment and Iraq’s oil-pollution case. Web display copies are resized and compressed with the complete frame retained; visible damage does not establish chemical contamination.
ANATOMY OF THE AFTERMATH / INTERACTIVE FIELD GUIDE
Explore five parts of a coastal landscape. Choose a marker to follow a question from a damaged system to the evidence we need.
CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION An imagined landscape—not a real location, damage map, or simulation. Connections are possible pathways, not measured outcomes.
Dashed marks highlight the selected question. They are illustrative connections, not observed transport, measured extent, or sampling locations.
01 / WATER
Water services depend on connected systems: power, pumps, treatment, pipes, supplies and maintenance. Damage to one part raises questions about supply and possible pollution pathways.
Power or treatment disruption → service interruption → water-quality questions
FOLLOW A REAL CASE
The September 2025 UNEP assessment describes likely aquifer and coastal pollution pathways. Coastal testing was not possible.
Evidence: assessed pathways · not site-level concentration measurements
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