Earth Is Breathing

What “breathing” means

Continuous exchange Carbon, heat, water and energy moving between atmosphere, land, ocean and society.

Subsolar latitude 00.0°N Calculated from UTC · live

Subsolar longitude 00.0°E Calculated from UTC · live

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PLANETARY SIGNAL

Solar time · now

Method and data

What is actually being shown.

“Breathing” is shorthand for measurable exchange: forests and soils move carbon and water; the ocean stores heat and absorbs carbon dioxide; sunlight drives the day–night energy cycle; human energy use releases carbon dioxide and air pollutants.

The daylight boundary and subsolar coordinates are calculated from UTC. The solar-time lens shifts the illumination layer by ±12 hours without changing the evidence dates. In the local fallback, markers are positioned directly from the satellite map’s rendered pixels so they remain attached to the imagery. Forest and pollution points use country-level indicators; their city or regional locations are map anchors, not local sensors.

Primary sources

Surface · May 2004NASA Blue Marble Next Generation
Night lights · 2016NASA/NOAA VIIRS Black Marble
Forest area · 2020–2023World Bank forest-area indicator
Ocean basinsNOAA/NCEI World Ocean Volumes
CO₂ · 2018–2023World Bank CO₂ emissions per capita
PM2.5 · 2022World Bank PM2.5 exposure
Climate and carbon signalsNASA wildfire carbon · Copernicus fire emissions · UNEP peatland carbon · AIMS coral bleaching · NASA ice sheets

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