The government runs thousands of sensors over this country every minute — rivers, wildlife, the spread of disease — and files the readings where almost no one looks. This is a living globe built entirely from that federal data: the planet, as the instruments actually see it.
Spin the Earth. Turn on a layer and watch it come alive — thousands of river gauges reporting their flow right now, live from the USGS, and the white-nose plague crawling across the bat caves of America, winter by winter.
For Natasha — who loves this planet and the small wild things on it, and taught me to look closer. 🌎