The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
NOAA had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@davidho I first saw this graph around 1980 in a practice test for a science exam. It wasn't part of the curriculum as such, but it made a good real-world test of data comprehension and interpretation.
I looked at it and thought, "Holy shit, we are in trouble".