 Global and 30 dataset with a 30m resolution provides opportunities for characterizing global land cover patterns, monitoring extreme land change cases, and identifying their types and magnitude. The findings reveal massive land change patterns including deforestation, desertification, shrinkage of water bodies, and urbanization across the globe, which can help policy makers, environmental planners, ecosystem services providers, and climate change researchers to gain insights about the forms of global land change. Future research should investigate the underlying causes of these changes and their consequences on ecosystems and human populations. This article was authored by Jamal Joka Asanjani.