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7/ For builders: open JSON and an MCP server, so your AI assistant can answer with live data. All public sources, all credited. Code is MIT.
8/ Try it and install it: mugilu.live
On a screen: mugilu.live/display
Code: github.com/urbanmorph/mugilu ⭐
The Mumbai story: firstpost.com/explainers/gas…
1/ India has 6.38 crore public records of plants and animals. A record is one plant or animal at one place on one date.
96% of the records are birds.
But only 1,633 of the 49,398 species on record are birds. The other 47,765 species share 4% of the records. 🧵
10/ Museum specimens online per km², compared with India: Brazil: 9x South Africa: 22x Mexico: 46x
None of them is a high-income country. They did not wait for new surveys.
11/ The fixes are within reach: • Put the national specimen collections online • Clear the identification queue • Make open licences the default • Publish new species as data, not PDFs • Assess India's endemic plants
Full story, with a state map: overlooked-species.surge.sh
1/ This El Niño began in May 2026. It will likely peak by December and end by May 2027. India saw it coming months ahead, and the bill still arrives in full. 🧵 Link at the end. 🧵
6/ El Niño will be back, probably by 2031, with 6 to 9 months of warning. Heat action plans already return 14 to 123 times their cost in Indian cities. The rain is not ours to control. The bill is.
7/ The full story, with maps, a state leaderboard, open data and methods: el-nino.surge.sh
Data: NOAA, IMD, IITM, CGWB, DES. Maps: bharatlas.