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"As far as we know, Timelapse in Google Earth is the largest video on the planet, of our planet," said Google's Rebecca Moore.

The Maya Forest is the second-largest continuous rainforest in Latin America after the Amazon. And like so many other tropical forests around the world, it’s disappearing. Since 2000, the forest has shrunk by 15%. The good news is that there’s still a lot of forest left: the Maya Forest spans 35 million hectares of land sprawling across Belize, Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico. However, the size of the forest also makes it difficult for any one government agency or NGO to protect. It’s ...

by Amy Lupica (Our Daily Planet)  In time for Earth Day, last week Google unveiled Google Earth Timelapse, allowing users to see zoomable videos documenting how the Earth has changed since 1984. Through the eyes of a satellite, users can view sobering and sometimes alarming trends of deforestation, sea-level rise, dried up seas, and urban sprawl. Developers hope that this program, a product of 37 years of documentation, can help people see and believe in climate change and fight back. �...

 channel for the latest stories and updates. Throughout the years, Kuala Lumpur has seen rapid development with buildings and skyscrapers mushrooming in the nation’s capital, creating a dense concrete jungle. The thing is, it wasn’t like that in 1980’s when there wasn’t that many buildings and Kuala Lumpur was surrounded by trees and greenery compared to right now. To actually see how the landscape has changed from a few decades ago, you can try out Google Earth Timelapse which allows...

20/04/2021 20 April 2021, Brussels/Rome - “New solutions and modern approaches” are needed to face global challenges such as hunger, poverty, climate change, environmental degradation and the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today at the launch of the European Commission’s new Knowledge Centre for Earth Observation (KCEO). “Actionable information gained from earth observation data is an important enabler” for the transformation envi...

Few countries have oil reserves as deep as Iraq. The extractive industries bring jobs and tax revenues to a nation that has been hobbled by invasion, war and insurgency for close to two decades. Yet this economic activity comes at a cost. Oil spills, pollution and declining air quality have taken a significant toll on the environment, and on the health of many Iraqis. On top of this, greenhouse gas emissions from the oil industry continue to contribute to global warming while some areas of Iraq...

Google Earth’s historical 3D time lapses show the ravages of climate change Share this story Google Earth is getting a new 3D time-lapse feature that lets you observe how Earth has changed from 1984 to 2020, allowing you to see just how much the devastatingeffects of climate change have already shaped the geography of the planet. “It’s best for a landscape view of our world,” Rebecca Moore, director of Google Earth, Google Earth Engine, and Google Earth Outreach, said in a call with rep...

Google Earth Time-Lapse Feature Tracks 40 Years of Change Twitter 0 comments We have already seen the numerous ways climate change devastates the Earth. It’s behind ghost forests popping up and down coastal US, ice caps melting in the Arctic, and wildfires destroying forests all over the world. In fact, in 2019, the United Nations warned that we only had 11 years to prevent “irreversible damage” caused by climate change. Beyond understanding the damage climate change currently inflicts ...

Virtual expert meeting discusses space-based solutions for disaster risk management and emergency response in Nigeria Format In recent decades, communities in Nigeria have experienced disasters triggered by floods, droughts, landslides, coastal erosion, oil spills, and other natural and technological hazards that have eroded hard-won development gains. Taking note of advances in space technologies and other technological innovations. Since 2008, the UN-SPIDER programme of the Office for Outer S...

Source: MakeLemonade.nz A study reported in the journal  Current Biology  says while about 18 million square kilometres of Africa still has suitable habitat for elephants, the actual range of African elephants has shrunk to just 17 percent of what it could be due to human pressure and the killing of elephants for ivory. The Mara Elephant Project in Kenya looked at every square kilometre of the continent and found that 62 percent the elephant-land area is suitable for habitat, the Science Dail...