Scrollytelling

Stories that unfold as you scroll

Long-form, map-driven features for Mongabay and its bureaus. Each one is a custom build: the reader scrolls, and the map flies, layers appear and the numbers land at the moment the text needs them.

Opening screen of “Collision course”: a ship and a whale on converging tracks in the Mediterranean.

Mongabay · 14 Sept 2026

Collision course

Why whales are dying in the Mediterranean’s shipping lanes.

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Opening screen of “What does a map miss?”, over a coastal zoning map.

Mongabay India · 19 May 2026

What does a map miss?

A large-scale government-drafted map misses the details, driving a community anxious.

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Opening screen of “Dual-purpose?”, over a photograph of the seabed.

Mongabay · 24 Mar 2026

Dual-purpose?

How a Chinese research vessel might serve both civilian and military roles, told through six months of its voyages.

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Opening screen of “Shifting Sands”, over an aerial view of a quarry.

Mongabay India · 11 Nov 2025

Shifting Sands

Quarries devour the buffer forests of the Western Ghats after a sand-mining ban.

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Opening screen of “Damming the Arai River”, over a river landscape.

Mongabay · 9 Sept 2025

Damming the Arai River

Irrigation Dam 2 will close the Arai River, which feeds the Pursat and the Tonle Sap, Cambodia’s most productive freshwater fishery.

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Interactive 3D maps

Seafloors you can turn around

Bathymetry built from open elevation data, rendered in the browser.

The Mariana Trench in 3D

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The Honduran Caribbean seafloor in 3D

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