Video: How the Earth is dying
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, humans have had a huge impact on the Earth, which only accelerates over time. It seems imperceptible, but if you look at this collection of photographs, you can clearly see how a person is changing the planet.
Some photographs were taken half a century apart, others 10-15 years apart.
Photos from the 1940s to the 2000s show how climate change has affected the Earth's glaciers. Here are photographs of the Muir Glacier in Alaska in August 1941 (left) and August 2004 (right).
And this is the snow that remained on the Matterhorn in Switzerland in August 1960. For comparison - the same place in August 2005.
Since the 1970s, NASA has been using satellite imagery to document deforestation in some of the world's national parks. For example, Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda in 1973 and 2005.
Deforestation in Salta, Argentina is evident in this pair of photographs from 1972 and 2009.
The Mau forest in Kenya was badly damaged at the hands of loggers. The difference is noticeable in the pictures taken in 1973 and in December 2009.
A similar story happened in Kenya's Nakuru Lake National Park. The photographs were taken in 1973 and 2000.
Deforestation also affected the South American Atlantic Forest in Paraguay. This is what he looked like in 1973 and 2008.
This is Rondonia, Brazil, where many trees were cut down between 1975 and 2009.
And the same thing happened with the Baban Rafi forest in Niger from 1976 to 2007.
These images show how the Mount Kenya forest in Kenya was depleted from 1976 to 2007.
Climate change began to affect glaciers in the 1970s. Here are photos of the Corey Calis glacier in Peru in 1978 and 2011.
This footage documents melting ice in Ecuador from March 1986 to February 2007.
Since the 1980s, NASA has also recorded drying up of lakes around the globe. This is a photo of the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado in 1987. On the right is the same park in 2011.
The Aral Sea in Central Asia shrank significantly from 2000 to 2014.
And the same thing happened with the Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico. Compare his condition in 1994 with 2013.
Rivers are shrinking in Arizona and Utah. These images compare the state river system in March 1999 and May 2014.
Lake Mar Chiquita in Argentina decreased significantly from 1998 to 2011.
And deforestation continues to take its toll, as these two images of the Mabira Forest in Uganda show in 2001 and 5 years later.
Droughts have hit the US hard over the past few years too. Here are three shots of drying water in Kansas - in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
The disappearing Lake Urmia in Iran - filmed in July 2000 and July 2013.
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