For the past 15 years, Google Earth has given us the ability to explore the planet in 3D replica. All of it's glorious detail made to entertain and empower positive changes.
Now Google Earth has stepped it up with the biggest update since 2017. We can see our planet in a new dimension - TIME. Timelapse in Google Earth. An interactive 4D experience has been compiled from 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years. We can watch time unfold to see close to 4 decades of change to our planet - Earth. Watch this!
Google Earth DIrector Rebecca Moore says the developers had identified five themes. Google Earth has a guided tour for each. Showing the change of the climate measured in time. (EcoWatch)
1. Forest change / deforestation in Bolivia
2. Urban growth / Las Vegas
3. Warming temperatures / melting glaciers & ice sheets
4. Sources of energy / impacts of coal mining in Wyoming
5. Fragile beauty / flow of Bolivia's Mamoré River
Explore climate change in time - g.co/Timelapse