"This new Timelapse feature provides a bird's eye view of nearly 4 decades of environmental transformation, allowing us to see how the climate emergency, a planetary crisis has unfolded since 1984. Using 24 million satellite images representing quadrillions of pixels compiled over 37 years (thanks in large part to NASA), TimeLapse is an interactive, 4-D experience that illustrates how certain areas of the planet have changed incredibly quickly. Watch how sea ice in Greenland has meltedcontributing to global sea level rise; how deforestation in the Amazon has intensified in the past 20 years; how the Aral Sea has dried up to a fraction of its size since the early 2000s; how decades of bushfires have impacted Yellabinna, Australia. You can watch skylines pop up seemingly overnight in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, and Dubai, UAE, alluding to the environmental costs of rapid urbanization."
At www.commondreams.org
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