Every day the world changes - rivers erode their banks, glaciers grow and recede , cities spread a little further into the suburbs.
most of the time, it is impossible to see the changes to the naked eye. Often you are not able to attend a real change until you leave one place and go back days, weeks, decades later.
My father grew up on Oahu before Hawaii was still a state; the island was just a red light. Today, Honolulu is a thriving metropolis. Did it happen overnight? On the contrary!
Fortunately, sites like Google Earth Engine let us look at how time influences not only exotic places, but also the places we so familiarly to call home.
1. The Ucayali river crosses the province of Ucayali in Peru.
2. Twenty-eight years completely reshaped the landscape of the Nevada desert.
3. Effects 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo are far reaching.
4. Columbia Glacier in Alaska back incredibly fast when you look in recent years.
5. The deforestation of the Amazon forest is even more surprising from above.
6. How long does it take for a lake to dry? For the Urmia Lake in Iran, under 30 years.
7. No wonder the population of Shanghai has doubled in just 20 years when you see it.
8. Here is how cities can appear in the desert - irrigation. (Saudi Arabia)
9. Many natural lakes Oahu, which once marked the mountains were filled for urban expansion Honolulu.
10. The technology industry has built San Francisco in the great city it is today.
11. These lakes in Wyoming have moved!
12. The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant devastated the Ukrainian city in 1986 - was recovered slowly by nature
13 .. The artificial islands of Dubai pop up on seemingly nowhere.
14. The Three Gorges Dam, built in 03, has flooded the country and displaced thousands of people.
15. The Aral Sea, in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan border, is a shadow of that she once was.
is really quite striking how much the world is changing under our feet.
There is a constant reminder to stop and really smell the roses - they could be gone tomorrow.
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