Assesses the recorded biodiversity of an area around a point: how many distinct species appear, how many records support them, how recent those records are, how many separate datasets contributed, and the breakdown by kingdom. The trap this service is built around is that record density measures observers, not organisms — a city park with heavy footfall carries more records than a roadless reserve and is not thereby richer.

Returns the German Weather Service reference-period values for the station nearest a coordinate: monthly means and annual totals for air temperature, precipitation and sunshine duration, plus the mean annual counts of frost days, ice days, summer days and hot days.

Returns a single earthquake in decision-ready form, either by its USGS event identifier or as the most significant event matching a search. Magnitude is reported with the magnitude type, because moment magnitude and local magnitude are not interchangeable at the edges of their ranges.

Queries the Sensor.Community live area feed, keeps the newest noise reading per outdoor sensor within the requested radius, and returns nearest readings plus median, p10 and p90 LAeq. It never converts missing sensors into an estimated dB value. Community sensors are indicative rather than calibrated regulatory measurements; no day/night legal limit or property valuation is inferred.

Returns the latest instantaneous values at a USGS streamgage, together with what makes them readable. A stage of three point four feet means nothing on its own, so each value is placed against the station own record for the requested reference period: the minimum, median and maximum, and the percentile the current reading falls at. The reference period is stated with the comparison, because a percentile without a window is not a statistic.

Retrieves water quality results for a monitoring site from the Water Quality Portal and normalises them into a comparable shape. The real work is units: the same measurement appears there as mg/L, ug/L, ppm and mg/l in mixed case, and combining them unchecked puts factor-of-thousand errors into any statistic built on top.