Amazon Deforestation: Timelapse

Explore a global timelapse of our planet, constructed from Landsat satellite imagery. The Amazon rainforest is shrinking at a rapid rate to provide land for farming and raising cattle. Each frame of the timelapse map is constructed from a year of Landsat satellite data, constituting an annual 1.7-terapixel snapshot of the Earth at 30-meter resolution. The Landsat program, managed by the USGS, has been acquiring images of the Earth's surface since 1972. Landsat provides critical scientific information about our changing planet.

For the interactive timelapse version of this tour, visit http://earthengine.google.org

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[Phireus]

yay humans are the earths cancer

[Bjarki2330]

One day we will end up looking like Venus or Mars. I think people aren't quite getting that the Earth is our only home, and we haven't even found a habitable planet that's close by yet. Man, we are a fucked up waste of the environment.

[mito matusaki]

i have been to the Amazon and its not as bad as you think it is, its much worse! Officials say like 20% are destroyed, i say its more like 50 %! what you see on sat is human activity, but you dont see all the cattle tumble down the forest...by the way how is your mcd burger?

[nikysch]

Un crimen contra la Humanidad. ¿Quién para a estos terroristas medioambientales?

[100kby35]

Something we can all do is try to purchase paper and tissues certified not to harm rainforests and travelling to ecotourism resorts.

[100kby35]

That is disgusting. If the Amazon is destroy, tourism will be severely impacted in Brazil. No one wants to travel to a wasteland.

[Veg Nik]

brook dot com/veg

[Conner Craig]

hmmm, in the third world...

they chopping down their forests...

for agriculture...

what a strange idea, I wonder where people in developing countries got that Idea from?

[LCJquebec]

Eco-terrorisme !!! des million et des million d'ectare de foret, des eco-system unik son détruit chaque annéé et ce mondialement ! Les foret, les arbres, il les couperont jusquau dernier. Comment rester de glace face a une tel destruction ! De pas en parler est un crime et de ne rien faire lai aussi ! Voila ce que le mode de vie des civilisé, pratique, inculque et approuve. Les foret, les animaux sont tous gravement en vois de disparitions comme partout ailleur. Il faut s'ouvrir a l'inconscience

[OpressedSerf]

wow, thank you for showing us this.