Earth's changing face

June 5th, 2009 | Posted in: misc.

The last decade we have been changing the face of our planet rapidly. NASA has captured this change trough their Earth Observatory. The following movies reveal how fast things are changing. Unfortunately most of these changes can be regarded as deterioration…

The urbanisation of Dubai
These people have been building like mad-men the past decade as you van see.

The Aral Sea
Once the 4th greatest lake in the world, the size Aral Sea has been reduced quickly by irrigation and damming. Now it’s only 10% of its former size.

Mesopotamian Marshes
After the Saddam Hussein regime fell, the Iraqi’s have been working hard to boost new life into the marshes of Mesopotamia. One of the few good things…

Drought in Utah
Utah’s Lake Powell was once teeming with boaters, fishers and vacationers. But from 2000 to 2005 its water level dropped from 20 million to 8 million acre-feet, due to severe drought. Water levels have rebounded a bit, but are expected to plummet to levels even lower than those of 2005 during the next serious drought.

Makes you think, doesn’t it? All these changes within a decade… We used to push the problems forwards into the hands of our future generations but it seems now that we have to deal with the consequences of our behavior ourselves.

Thanks for the insights Wired.