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Every feature below is live on EarthNow today.
Ask the planet a question. Earth answers in first person — calm, ancient, grounded. One cinematic moment, not a chat.
Four one-tap starter questions. Personalized to your era when a birth year is set.
Continuously-updating estimates across population, climate, money, technology, and civilization — each one sourced.
Opens your first visit, and replays on request with a different one of 35 stats each time, letter by letter.
People, Energy, Planet, Food, Technology — each with tabbed storytelling.
Enter your birth year. See what the planet spent — including poop produced.
Your lifetime as one cinematic sentence: the world's population when you arrived, now, and the CO₂ you've added.
A scrubbable ribbon of planetary events during your life. Color-coded by category. Drag your finger or tap a dot to explore decades.
Enter a birth year once. The site shifts — a persistent chip in the nav, an inline reveal, contextual framing as you keep exploring.
A living bento grid of humanity's vital signs, shuffling with animated transitions.
Juxtapositions that make you stop scrolling. Randomized every visit.
Live-ticking counters between sections. Balanced mix of hopeful, alarming, and fascinating.
Tracks your time on the page and shows what happened on Earth while you read.
earthnow.app/today — a living snapshot of the planet, updated every second.
Scrub from 10,000 BCE to today. Watch civilization accelerate.
302 milestones across 12,000 years. Filterable. Shareable. Map-linked.
A web component anyone can embed. 24 stats, dark/light themes, configurable layout.
Generate a cinematic snapshot of your visit. Copy, download, or share.
Nine angles on your lifetime impact — CO₂, water, miles, meals, and more. Swipe or tap arrows to find the one that lands.
Every page renders its own 1200×630 preview — a cinematic Earth on the homepage, a tailored card everywhere else. Every shared link looks intentional.
An llms.txt layer plus site-wide structured data teach search engines and AI assistants exactly what EarthNow is — described accurately, cited correctly, no guesswork.
Native payment forms that feel like the site. One-time or monthly. No redirects.
A dedicated page for the Terra ambient display, with a ticker of the estimated counters and ordering.
Procedural ambient soundscape that plays on request. Sets the mood without interrupting.
Loading bar, globe reveal, navbar slide, audio prompt, content fade — staged on a first visit and on every replay. A returning visitor goes straight to the content.
Cards start dormant and power on with a staggered wave as you scroll. HUD-style corner brackets.
Fresnel atmospheric glow on the globe. 18 floating dust motes drifting at different speeds for parallax depth.
Satellites orbit the hero globe, each leaving a fading teal streak so the motion reads as a tracked object rather than ambient decoration. A pulsing caption below identifies them at a glance.
CSS-animated particles burst outward when Civilization Signals shuffle. Cinematic transitions.
Optimized for phones, tablets, and desktops. Responsive grids, touch-friendly with large tap targets and drag-to-scrub gestures.
Every counter — homepage, daily briefing, widget, Ask Earth — derives from a single canonical rate table, with CI tests that fail if any copy drifts. Counters stay accurate through background tabs and midnight rollovers.
Each signal states the unit it counts in, and names the organisation, the year, and the publication its figure comes from — hover or tap any counter to see it. The full citations, with a link to each publication, are gathered in one list on /signal. Figures we could not attribute to a named publication were cut rather than estimated.
Nine measured values, straight from the agencies: atmospheric CO₂ and methane, the global temperature anomaly, sea surface temperature, the heat held in the upper ocean, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, geomagnetic activity, and the natural events being tracked this week. Each one dated, explained, and linked to its source dataset.
A page for each counter in the homepage grid and the Civilization Signals strip: what the number counts, the unit it counts in, who published the underlying figure, and how it is arrived at. The ones with a written explanation also say what would actually move them, and where a related measurement is on the observed page, what that reading is to the counter, with a link to it.
The site now says which of its numbers are measurements and which are estimates — on the page, in the API, and in the file that tells AI assistants how to cite us. A ticking digit is not evidence, and we no longer let it imply otherwise.
The screen itself: a rotating deck that alternates the estimated counters with the measured NASA and NOAA readings, sized to be read across a room. It never shows a loading state or an error, nothing on it animates indefinitely, and it runs in any browser — which is what makes the TV apps a wrapper rather than a rebuild.
Seven of the nine measured readings are drawn, not just quoted: one point per year for the same calendar date, the same month for the monthly records, or the whole year for ocean heat, back to 1850 for the sea surface. Holding the calendar fixed is what makes a trend visible — a raw daily line is mostly the seasons. Each chart states how long its own record is, and the headline readings on the daily briefing are drawn too, as is the measured reading on a signal page wherever its counter has one.
Sea surface temperature, month by month, and the heat held in the top 2,000 metres of ocean, year by year — both from NOAA NCEI, both charted against their own record. The ocean takes up most of the extra heat greenhouse gases trap, and these are the two measurements that show it.
Sign up on the web, then pair a screen with a short code instead of a login nobody wants to type on a TV remote. The code rides on the Stripe subscription — there is no account to log into and no database holding your screens.
In active development.
Native apps for Samsung (Tizen), LG (webOS), Google TV and Android TV, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV. Terra is app-based now — no streaming stick to ship, and nothing to replace when a manufacturer retires one.
Same voice as Ask Earth, offered without being asked. Live on the observed readings today — one line beside each measurement, chosen by the same comparison that colours it, never stating a figure of its own. Next: the rest of the site.
What EarthNow becomes with sustained support.
How much ice the world's reference glaciers lose each year. The open annual record is published by the World Glacier Monitoring Service rather than NASA or NOAA, whose ice-mass data sits behind a login, so it waits on a deliberate decision to widen the observed readings beyond those two agencies.
Auto-scroll the homepage at documentary pace. Ambient music. Cinematic.
Zoom into countries. Compare local data to global trends.
Structured learning paths for classrooms and curious minds.
What if we cut emissions by 50%? Model different futures.
Save your preferences. Track the metrics that matter to you.
Resources designed for educators and mission-driven organizations.
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