Cities grow. Human settlements expand across lands — and even into the water. Some forests burn down and regrow while others are gradually depleted by logging. And, over the last few decades, satellites have captured it all, showing how Earth has changed in just a matter of years.
Growth of Phoenix, Arizona, between 1972 and 2011
The urbanization of Dubai, 2000-2011
Forest fires in Trinity County, California, between 1995 and 2011
Deforestation in the Amazon state of Rondonia, Brazil, between 1975 and 2009
The vanishing Arctic Ice Cap
The changes of Mt. Saint Helens between 1979 and 2011, due to volcanic activity
The growth of Singapore, 1984-2012
Gradual regeneration of Yellowstone National Park’s forests following the 1988 fire season. The video shows satellite images taken between 1987 and 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdA9G0ceDo8
Calving of an ice island from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, and drifting down the fjord, captured between July 9 and September 13, 2012
Growth of Las Vegas, Nevada, between 1972 and 2010
The shrinking Amazon rainforest in Brazil, 2000-2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIA0lqfcN4
