Google Earth is showing video images of climate change, urbanization and deforestation. Has released a new feature - Timelaps. In Fordy View, users will be able to see how forests and rivers have been lost in any part of the world in the last four decades.
Timelaps have been used to create 40 million images, 800 archived videos and interactively guided images of artificial satellites over the past 37 years. The feature also uses data from the US space agency NASA, the US Geological Survey's Landsat program and the European Union's Copernicus program.
Reuters reports that Google Earth's timelapse tool highlights riverine areas, ever-growing urban areas and agricultural land changes. It also shows the depletion of glaciers, forests and rivers.
One such video shows Bolivia's nearby forests disappearing into villages and farms. In another, the main reason for the rise of the Amazon forest. The third one is seen melting again in the video
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