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World Vitals

Signs of a world in transition

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An editorial indicator, not a scientific one. How the index is calculated

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Sources and attribution

UCDP — Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0)
World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0)
The GDELT Project
U.S. Geological Survey — Earthquake Hazards Program
NASA EONET — Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — Doomsday Clock
Hacker News (Algolia search) and arXiv. Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability.
Map outline: Natural Earth (public domain)

News items show only the headline, source, date and link. The data refreshes on its own: fast sources every 30 minutes, slow ones once a day. Times are in UTC.