The US Geological Survey (USGS) has just released the latest satellite images showing significant changes in our Earth over the past four decades.
Hydroelectric dams in Brazil. On the left is a picture taken in 1984 with little 'cracks', while the right is a 2011 photo showing many 'wounds' here. Deforestation is believed to have caused this change.
Photos taken in Dubai in 1990 (left) and 2006 (right) show a more brown appearance by thriving urban areas.
Images in Fonseca Bay, Honduras in 1985 respectively, in 1999 and 2011 (left to right) show that the green in the bay faded by the development of aquaculture.
Photos of the Aral Sea respectively from 1973, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009 show that the green area of the sea water is gradually shrinking because this area has developed irrigation systems and wet rice cultivation. .
Satellite images of Jakarta, Indonesia with red eyebrows are vegetation, green is an urban area. After nearly 40 years, blue has' overwhelmed 'the red' of Asia's most populous city.
The flow of the Dead Sea, Jordan is shrinking compared to 40 years ago. Satellite images of the Caspian Sea show that the green color of the water changes gradually due to human impacts.
The blue color gradually occupies the Columbia glacier through the timelines of 1986 (pictured above), 2000 (middle photo) and 2011 (lower scene).
Meredith's artificial lake in Sanford, Texas is suffering from drought and dryness, resulting in a shrinking lake area.
