About

The world, from its sources.

browse.info shows what is happening in the world as the people who measure it report it: earthquakes, disaster and weather alerts, storms, the news as Wikipedia's editors and governments record it, exchange rates, space weather, the space station, and countries' published figures. It is free, it has no accounts and no advertising, and it writes none of the news.

Who makes it

Browse is made by Yank, the site for keeping sourced findings as cards with their receipts. Write to comboventures+browse@gmail.com.

How to read a figure

Every figure on Browse comes with three things: its source, named and linked; its time, the source's own, in UTC or with its time zone; and its kind, so a measurement is never mistaken for an alert, a forecast or Browse's own arithmetic.

• OBSERVED: the source reports it happened or measured it.
• ALERT: an authority says it may happen or is expected; an alert is not the event.
• FORECAST: a prediction, by the source that made it.
• OFFICIAL RECORD: a government's own publication.
• STATISTIC: an official figure the source published for a date.
• ESTIMATE: the source's own model estimate, not a count.
• REFERENCE: an encyclopedia entry or sourced factual page.
• MEDIA: a picture or video, with its author and licence.
• DERIVED: Browse's own calculation from the records named, by the operation shown.

Where the information comes from

• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above, and significant ones.
• GDACS (UN and European Commission): Orange and Red disaster alerts worldwide.
• US National Weather Service: active US alerts rated Severe or Extreme, and local alerts for a place.
• NOAA National Hurricane Center: active tropical storms and their advisories.
• NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: geomagnetic storms, the Kp index, alerts and forecasts.
• Aviation Weather Center: observed weather at the station nearest a place (METAR).
• European Central Bank: daily euro foreign exchange reference rates.
• World Bank: countries' published indicators: population, births, deaths, life expectancy and more.
• US Treasury Fiscal Data: the US national debt, as the Treasury records it.
• Wikipedia and Wikimedia: In the news, Current events, featured content, page views, and freely licensed pictures from Commons.
• The White House, the Federal Register, the European Commission: governments' own records and statements.
• Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs): upcoming launches and the crew in orbit.
• CelesTrak (and ARISS when CelesTrak cannot be read): the space station's orbital elements, which the US Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron publishes on Space-Track.org; Browse computes the station's position and passes from them, and names whichever source gave them.
• NASA/JPL Center for Near-Earth Object Studies: asteroid close approaches.
• NASA GIBS, Blue Marble and Black Marble: the globe's picture of the Earth: yesterday's satellite view, and the night lights.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim: finding a place by its name.

What Browse never does

• Browse writes none of the news: every line is its source's, with the outlets its editors cite.
• Browse never invents a figure: a number is a source's, for the source's time, with its kind beside it; what Browse works out itself is labelled DERIVED.
• Browse has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party scripts: what you follow and save stays in your browser (/privacy).

The pages

• Now: The world right now: one discovery, a globe with the day's earthquakes, alerts, storms and the space station, what changed since your last visit, rising attention, your area, Today's 10, and the live map and feeds.
• Discover: One thing worth knowing at a time: the strongest earthquake, the next launch, the nearest asteroid, today's picture, what happened on this day; each with why it was chosen, its time, its source and its kind.
• News: What is happening and who is reporting it: Wikipedia's In the news and Current events, and governments' own records (the White House, the Federal Register, the European Commission), each line with its source.
• Places: Any place on Earth: its local time, the nearest observed weather, active alerts and recent earthquakes nearby.
• Money: Exchange rates against a base you choose, from the European Central Bank's daily reference rates, with their change and what 1 unit buys.
• Space: The International Space Station's position and visible passes, upcoming launches, the crew in orbit, and space weather from NOAA.
• Compare: Countries side by side on the World Bank's published figures: life expectancy, money, population and more.
• Live wall: A full-screen wall of live counters and feeds for a screen in a room.
• Privacy: What Browse keeps (nothing about you on its servers) and what stays on your device.
• Terms: The terms of use.

For machines

Agents and crawlers are welcome: a short map at /llms.txt, everything in one file at /llms-full.txt, what an agent may do at /agents.md, and the pages at /sitemap.xml. Browse is in preview and asks search engines not to index it yet.

Last updated 5 October 2026