Deep dives into the data behind the counters. Perspective-shifting explorations of what is happening on Earth every second.
From population and internet activity to environment, economy, health, and space — a comprehensive exploration of everything unfolding on Earth right now, explained through live data.
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9% in 2019, after losses. Why collection is not recycling, and why two different '9%' figures get mixed up.
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10.9 million hectares deforested a year, 4.12 million net loss. Why logging, deforestation and net change are different things.
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Water taken from a river is not the same as water used up. How return flows change what a water statistic means.
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Yes: UNEP's 1.05 billion tonnes includes inedible parts. What counts, how much is edible, and why compost still counts.
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4.3 births. 4.5M emails. 1,200 tons of CO2. A global breakdown of one single second on planet Earth.
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4.5 million emails. 158,500 Google searches. 500 hours of YouTube uploads. The ephemeral internet in numbers.
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Static numbers inform. Live counters transform. The psychology behind why watching data move rewires your brain.
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8.2 billion and counting. Watch the number change, understand the growth, and feel the scale of humanity.
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158,500 searches per second. 13.7 billion per day. The largest ongoing expression of human curiosity in history.
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1,200 metric tons per second. Invisible, odorless, and accumulating faster than the planet can absorb it.
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392.5 billion per day. 3.5 million per second. Most of them are not from humans.
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27,600 km/h. Faster than a bullet. Circling Earth every 90 minutes. And the crew feels nothing.
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