Vox Video is using Google Earth Studio to add animated 3D maps to its storytelling videos on Vox.com. Michael Tavendale, Program Manager for Earth Studio, interviewed Sam Ellis, Senior Producer at Vox, to find out how the tool brings stories involving spatial data to life.

Wildfires, hurricanes, extreme heat waves, invasive species. These are the climate change news that I read most every morning I visit The Weather Channel’s homepage for the day’s weather forecast.

For the 40th anniversary of the New York City subway map, The New York Times created an interactive story that all but places you directly inside the map. Using a click-through format, the story follows the lines of the subway with animation and provides background on certain aspects of the map’s development and past.