The above picture, showing the make up of world greenhouse gas emissions, is taken from the World Resources Institute's Climate Analysis Indicators Tool site. There you'll find a variety of images relating to greenhouse gas emissions.
London Air is a project run by the Environmental Research Group at Kings College London. It is full of plotting air quality data for Greater London. As well as reports and news items, there are a series of statistical and graphing tools that let you customise their data. There is also some maps, of which the 3D one is a highlight.
Part of IBM's Collaborative User Experience research groupMany Eyes have a searchable database of visualisations. Searching for 'pollution' reveals gems such as US Industrial Air Emissions of Toxic Chemicals, 2004 by state; Global CO2 Emissions Compared To Land Area; Total Waste Disposed in Canada; and Air Pollution in China, 2005.
MapEcos (left) is an interactive map of US facilities and their pollution levels. It is searchable by name, industry, owner, type of emissions, level of emissions and hazard level. The site is optimised for Firefox and IE users.The New York Times' coverage of the Olympics was excellent and included an interesting piece on air pollution in Beijing.
Earlier in the year AEG-ELECTROLUX ran a project on noise awareness using posters with embedded sound meters.
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