Vanity Fair is the latest magazine to publish images from the Worldmapper project.

Complex data—on fuel, plants, or recycling—can tell a simple story. With maps from a joint project between the Universities of Michigan and Sheffield (U.K.), a famed Harvard biologist lays bare the environmental bottom line.

Wilson offers a few tidbits of scientific trivia, such as:

If the bodies of all 6.5 billion human beings alive on earth today were log-stacked, they would fill less than a cubic mile.

Problems Without Borders, by E.O. Wilson