Cool site of the day: Breathing Earth

Check out this very cool Web site, Breathing Earth. It tracks the carbon dioxide consumption around the world, as well as births and deaths in each country. Best of all?  It’s in real time. Tip of the hat to Kottke.

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Check out this very cool Web site, Breathing Earth. It tracks the carbon dioxide consumption around the world, as well as births and deaths in each country. Best of all?  It's in real time.

Check out this very cool Web site, Breathing Earth. It tracks the carbon dioxide consumption around the world, as well as births and deaths in each country. Best of all?  It’s in real time.

Tip of the hat to Kottke.

Christine Y. Chen is a senior editor at Foreign Policy.

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