Google time lapse photos of human destruction of the earth

See Humanity’s Effect On Earth In These Stunning Time-Lapse Satellite Photos
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

From growing Vegas to chopping down the Amazon, these Google photos of the last three decades of the Earth from space let you see both human ingenuity and our destructive power.

The boom­ing economies of Gulf oil states. The rise in the glob­al…

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Satellite imagery tracks shipping pollution

Satellite Image Shows Tracks of Shipping Pollution
Keith Barry, wired.com

When ships cross bodies of water, they leave behind visible “tracks” of pollution. NASA has been using satellite imagery to collect data on ship tracks, and the results are mildly disturbing.

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NASA shows that earth looks like one big disco ball at night

Satellite images of Earth, city lights at night
Posted By: Bryan Chan, latimes.com

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NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi Nation­al Polar-Orbiting Part­ner­ship satel­lite that is orbit­ing 512 miles above the Earth’s sur­face. The agency stitched some of these images togeth­er to cre­ate a…

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