Verified 2026-10-14. Every endpoint below was checked; anything unverified says so. Tiers: LIVE (daily or faster) · PERIODIC (weekly/monthly) · ANNUAL · STATIC (one-off, dated snapshot) · CLOSED (exists but no open access)
The site shows the tier on every panel. A STATIC panel says "as of
| Feed | Endpoint | Format | Auth | Cadence | License | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS MCS 2026 | ScienceBase item 69837e43b66b01367d7ec7c7, file MCS2026_Commodities_Data.csv; DOI 10.5066/P1WKQ63T |
CSV | none | Annual, Feb | CC0 | ANNUAL |
| Energy Institute Review 2026 | energyinst.org/statistical-review/resources-and-data-downloads (2026 XLSX is form-gated; 2025 direct link confirmed) | XLSX | email form | Annual, June | attribution; redistribution needs permission | ANNUAL |
| EIA API v2 | api.eia.gov/v2/{petroleum/sum, petroleum/cons, natural-gas/cons, coal/consumption-and-quality, international, steo}/data |
JSON | free key (register) | weekly (WPSR Wed 10:30 ET) / monthly | public | LIVE (US) / PERIODIC (world) |
| OWID grapher | ourworldindata.org/grapher/{slug}.csv?csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=true |
CSV | none | mirrors upstream | CC BY 4.0 | ANNUAL |
| IEA Critical Minerals dataset | iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/critical-minerals-dataset | XLSX | free IEA login | annual | CC BY 4.0 | ANNUAL (login) |
| Prices — IMF PCPS | imf.org/-/media/files/research/commodityprices/monthly/external-data.xlsx | XLSX | none | monthly | cite IMF | PERIODIC |
| Prices — FRED | PCOPPUSDM (copper); siblings for silver/cobalt unconfirmed |
JSON | free key | monthly | FRED terms | PERIODIC |
| Prices — World Bank Pink Sheet | thedocs.worldbank.org/.../CMO-Historical-Data-Monthly.xlsx (path segment changes yearly) | XLSX | none | monthly, ~2nd business day | CC BY 4.0 | PERIODIC |
| Data center energy/water | IEA Energy & AI 2025 (XLSX, login); LBNL 2024 US report (PDF) | PDF/XLSX | login / none | one-off | CC BY / public | STATIC |
Decisions - Meter arithmetic: reserve (USGS, annual) minus cumulative consumption since the reserve date, interpolated daily from the last annual production figure. Label: "Interpolated from USGS MCS 2026; reserves as of Jan 2026; production rate = 2025 estimate." - Fossil fuels: EI reserves are year-end 2020 and have not been refreshed. Meter shows "2020 reserves ÷ latest EIA consumption" and says so in the panel. - Lithium has no free daily or monthly price feed (not in IMF PCPS or Pink Sheet). Lithium meter carries volume only, no price. - Data center meter is STATIC: LBNL 176 TWh (4.4% of US, 2023); 325–580 TWh by 2028. Water: no public dataset. Panel shows the model and its date; no fake daily tick. - EI license: cite with attribution; do not mirror the XLSX in the repo.
| Feed | Endpoint | Format | Auth | Cadence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Mead / Powell | usbr.gov/uc/water/hydrodata/reservoir_data/{921 Mead | 919 Powell}/{csv|json}/{17 storage AF | 49 elevation ft | 42 release}.csv (full period of record; take tail) |
CSV/JSON | none | daily | LIVE |
| USGS Water Data API | api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/{latest-continuous, daily, field-measurements, monitoring-locations} |
GeoJSON | free key | real-time/daily | LIVE |
| Water Quality Portal | waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?characteristicName=Nitrate;Arsenic;...&siteType=Well&statecode=...&mimeType=csv |
CSV | none | nightly | LIVE |
| USGS national PFAS in groundwater | ScienceBase 64d167cbd34ef477cf3c0266, DOI 10.5066/P93RXTKJ |
CSV | none | 2024 one-off | STATIC |
| US Drought Monitor | usdmdataservices.unl.edu/api/USStatistics/GetDroughtSeverityStatisticsByAreaPercent?aoi=conus&startdate=&enddate=&statisticsType=1 |
CSV/JSON | none | weekly (Thu) | PERIODIC |
| NASA GRACE-DA drought indicators | nasagrace.unl.edu (weekly folders; PNG + binary grids; drought.gov XYZ tiles) | grids/tiles | none | weekly | PERIODIC |
| JPL GRACE mascon TWS (global) | PO.DAAC TELLUS_GRAC-GRFO_MASCON_CRI_GRID_RL06.3_V4, DOI 10.5067/TEMSC-3JC634 |
NetCDF 0.5° | free Earthdata login | monthly, ~3-mo lag | PERIODIC |
| FAO AQUASTAT | dashboard export only; World Bank API mirrors ER.H2O.FWST.ZS, ER.H2O.FWTL.ZS |
CSV/JSON | none | annual; many values are long-term averages | ANNUAL |
| WRI Aqueduct 4.0 water stress | files.wri.org/aqueduct/aqueduct-4-0-water-risk-data.zip | GPKG/CSV | none | 2023 one-off | STATIC |
| Jasechko 2024 global well trends | zenodo.org/records/10003697 (1,693 aquifers; 66% of records released) | CSV | none | one-off | STATIC |
Decisions
- Legacy waterservices.usgs.gov is being retired Nov 2026–Feb 2027. Build on api.waterdata.usgs.gov from day one.
- "Clean vs polluted aquifers": no national percent-exceedance feed exists. Compute it from WQP (nitrate >10 mg/L, arsenic >10 µg/L) per state, nightly, and show the sample count so a thin state is visibly thin. PFAS from the 2024 USGS static layer.
- "Fresh available" globally: Aqueduct 4.0 water-stress polygons (static 2023) plus World Bank/AQUASTAT withdrawal-as-%-of-renewable (annual). Global GRACE TWS anomaly computed from the JPL mascon grid monthly.
- US gets the live tier; the rest of the world gets annual and static tiers with that stated.
| Feed | Endpoint | Format | Auth | Cadence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOAA NCEI Marine Microplastics | ncei.noaa.gov/products/microplastics; archive DOI 10.25921/d1bs-3m40 (revised 2026-10-06) | CSV/GeoJSON | none | as-needed | PERIODIC |
| Eriksen 2023 global trend 1979–2019 | github.com/wincowgerDEV/ocean_plastic_modeling (LocationsCleanedWithWind.csv, 11,777 stations) |
CSV | none | one-off | STATIC |
| Baleen whale ingestion (Kahane-Rapport 2022) | github.com/shirelkr/risk-of-microplastic-ingestion-by-filter-feeding-megafauna | XLSX | none | one-off | STATIC |
| Mussel contamination | Cefas UK 2022 (data.gov.uk); NCEI accession 0290836 (SF Bay 2018) | CSV | none | one-off | STATIC |
| IAEA MARIS (Cs-137 etc.) | maris.iaea.org (JS app); CKAN mirror data.iaea.org/datastore has a working datastore API per dataset | NetCDF / CSV | none | irregular | PERIODIC |
| WHOI Our Radioactive Ocean | ourradioactiveocean.org — dormant since 2019 | HTML | none | dead | STATIC (baseline) |
| TEPCO / MOE ALPS monitoring | tepco.co.jp/en/decommission/progress/watertreatment/monitoring; shorisui-monitoring.env.go.jp/en | PDF / graphs | none | ~daily (TEPCO) | LIVE but no CSV |
| NOAA Coral Reef Watch DHW | coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/NOAA_DHW.csv?... |
ERDDAP | none | daily | LIVE |
| NOAA OISST SST | coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/ncdcOisst21Agg.json?sst[(last)]... |
ERDDAP | none | daily | LIVE |
| Copernicus Marine BGC (pH, O2) | GLOBAL_ANALYSISFORECAST_BGC_001_028 | NetCDF | free registration | daily | LIVE (login) |
| GPGP extent (Lebreton 2018) | figshare 5873142 (GPGP_contours.shp, 10/100/1000 g/km²) |
SHP/GeoTIFF | none | 2015–16 snapshot | STATIC |
| River plastic inputs (Meijer 2021) | figshare 14515590 (31,819 outfalls, t/yr); OWID plastic-entering-ocean has country totals |
SHP / CSV | none | one-off | STATIC |
Decisions - Microplastics: a dated point map, not a global index. NCEI itself warns concentrations are not comparable across methods. Panel says so. - Filter-feeder "percent of diet" does not exist as a metric anywhere. The honest panel is per-species ingestion estimates with their study, region and date (e.g., blue whale ~1.1e7 pieces/day, California Current, 2022). Not synthesized into a percentage. - Radioactivity: MARIS point samples (dated) plus WHOI 2014–2018 baseline. Fukushima tritium is published daily by TEPCO but only as PDFs; scrape or transcribe manually with the date shown, or omit from the daily job. - SST and heat stress are the cleanest live ocean feeds and go in first.
| Feed | Endpoint | Format | Auth | Cadence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAQ v3 | api.openaq.org/v3/locations, /locations/{id}/latest, /countries |
JSON | free key (X-API-Key), 60/min, 2,000/hr |
near-real-time | LIVE |
| WAQI | api.waqi.info/feed/{city}/?token= + map-bounds |
JSON | free token | real-time | LIVE — license risk |
| NASA GIBS WMTS | gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov/wmts/epsg4326/best/{Layer}/default/{date}/{set}/{z}/{row}/{col}.png (AOD layers confirmed; NO2 layer ID to verify) |
tiles | none | daily | LIVE |
| NOAA Mauna Loa CO2 | gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_daily_mlo.csv (# comment header) |
CSV | none | daily | LIVE |
| NOAA global CH4 | gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/ch4/ch4_mm_gl.csv |
CSV | none | monthly | PERIODIC |
| IQAir World AQ Report | PDF + Tableau only, no CSV (2025: 9,446 cities, 143 countries) | none | annual | ANNUAL (manual) |
Decisions - OpenAQ is the backbone (license per location, exposed in the API; attribute each). WAQI's terms require a written agreement for for-profit public use; skip it or get the agreement first. - Heaviest vs lightest: compute from OpenAQ latest PM2.5 by country/city at refresh time; show station counts so sparse countries aren't misread. - Key stays server-side in the refresh job.
| Feed | Endpoint | Format | Auth | Cadence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBI Global Biochar Market Report 2025 | biochar-international.org (exec summary PDF free; full $400) — 520,810 t biochar 2025 vs 180,150 t 2023 | none | annual | ANNUAL | |
| Biochar Europe Market Report 2025/26 | biochareurope.eu — 205 plants, 361 kt/a capacity end-2025 | none | annual | ANNUAL | |
| Puro.earth registry | registry.puro.earth/issuances (public table, filter Biochar; 595 issuances); API partner-only | HTML | none (UI) | continuous | LIVE UI / CLOSED API |
| CDR.fyi | api.cdr.fyi/v1 — partner access only | JSON | closed | continuous | CLOSED |
| OWID plastics (OECD) | ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-plastics-production.csv, plastic-waste-mismanaged.csv, share-plastic-waste-recycled.csv |
CSV | none | base year 2019 | STATIC |
| Chemical recycling / pyrolysis capacity | Fraunhofer UMSICHT map s.fhg.de/crmap — Europe: 18 plants operational, 289 kt/a; 2,799 kt/a planned (Oct 2025) | HTML | none | periodic | PERIODIC (manual) |
| Global Forest Watch alerts | POST data-api.globalforestwatch.org/dataset/gfw_integrated_alerts/latest/query/json |
JSON | free key, domain-bound | daily | LIVE |
Decisions - Biochar: no open time series. Scorecard = IBI annual production + Biochar Europe plant count + Puro public issuance count (scraped, dated). CO2 offset derived from tonnage only with the stable-carbon caveat (process temperature dependent). - Plastic pyrolysis capacity: nothing structured exists globally. Europe from Fraunhofer; US/Asia hand-curated from company disclosures (Agilyx, Plastic Energy, Brightmark, Plastic 2 Green) with source links. This is the section where Randy's own technical commentary carries the weight. - Plastics flow numbers are anchored at 2019 (OECD base). Label it.
Live layers: US reservoir levels, US drought, US groundwater sites, US air (OpenAQ global where stations exist), global SST and coral heat stress, Mauna Loa CO2, tropical deforestation alerts, NASA aerosol tiles.
Periodic: US drought, GRACE groundwater (US weekly, global monthly), methane, commodity prices.
Annual/interpolated: every commodity meter, fossil fuel R/P, water stress, biochar.
Static with date: microplastics points, radioactivity points, GPGP extent, river plastic inputs, PFAS wells, data center energy, plastics flows (2019).
Not shown as numbers: filter-feeder "percent of diet"; global aquifer pollution percent; data center water; pyrolysis capacity outside Europe (shown as a curated list with sources instead).
EIA (free), OpenAQ (free), USGS Water Data (free), GFW (free, domain-bound), NASA Earthdata (free, for GRACE), Copernicus Marine (free, optional for pH), FRED (free, optional).