ON THE WEB: THE CHANGING EARTH
by Hazed
Those clever people at Google have come up with another way to view our planet. They've stitched together satellite images to create timelapse videos which demonstrate how the Earth has changed over time.
You can watch cities expand, glaciers retreat and forests vanish over the past 28 years. Google gives some suggestions of what spectacular images you should view but you can take a look at your own hometown, or anywhere you like.
I can see this absorbing hours of time. Take a look at the Google Earth Engine here.