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Air, green space, water and infrastructure vary enormously between cities.
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These questions help estimate how your personal situation modifies your city's baseline exposome.

Based on environmental data from the Global Human Settlement Layer (EU JRC), World Bank, and Legaz et al. (2026) Nature Medicine. This is an illustrative index of a place's environment, not a clinical estimate and not a statement about anyone who lives there.

Stories

Health
Santiago, Chile · and 34 countries
The Brain-Age Gap
Country-level research links the exposome to accelerated brain ageing. This story measures those same exposures at 100 m across six Latin American cities.
Seven cities · after the Neuro Climate Report 2026
The Neuro Climate Report
The 2026 Neuro Climate report reads heat and dirty air as exposures of the nervous system. Seven cities on four continents, mapped neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany
The Loudest Wall
Noise is one of the exposures that make up the exposome. Berlin's and Frankfurt's planes, trains and road traffic move over the cities' official noise maps, read beside the health evidence and who lives there.
Nairobi, Kenya · and nine more cities
The Air Nobody Measures
Three of these ten cities have a PM2.5 value in the WHO database. For the rest, a volunteer network of low-cost sensors is the only ground record there is.
Climate
Bali, Indonesia
The Rice Fields Are Disappearing
Bali lost about 1,300 hectares of rice paddy a year between 2019 and 2024 to villas and sprawl, and the satellites show it getting less green.
Madre de Dios, Peru · West Africa
The Open Wound: Mining Watch from the Amazon to West Africa
Satellite models map mining scars from the Peruvian Amazon to West Africa and the Congo Basin, and what the counts can and cannot say.
Economy
Cape Town, South Africa
The Cliff
Measured household income falls off a cliff along the apartheid line: ~R820k to ~R25k over 12 km.
Lima, Peru
The Wall of Shame
A 10 km wall divides Las Casuarinas from Pamplona Alta. INEI's block-level income strata jump across it.
Detroit, United States
Drawn in Red, Built in Concrete
A 1939 redlining map, a half-mile concrete wall, and the income line that is still measurable 85 years on.
Global · after Thomas Piketty
Capital
The wealth curve, the politics that bent it, and a lever to bend it back. After Thomas Piketty.
Global · World Inequality Database
The Elephant Curve
Who gained when the world grew richer, 1980 to 2020: the global middle surged, the rich-world middle stalled, and the top soared.
Global · World Bank flow data
The Reverse Flow
Aid, remittances, FDI and debt service, animated across the globe from World Bank flow data. Debt service sends more back out than comes in.
Urbanisation
Johannesburg, South Africa
The Wall Between Worlds
Primrose and Makause share a boundary. They share nothing else.
Mumbai, India
The Width of a Road
A slum settlement and a serviced enclave, built to the same edge, the width of a road apart.
Lagos, Nigeria
Unequal Expansion
How Africa's largest city grew from 3M to 15M, and who got left behind, told through five epochs of satellite data.
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