Time-Lapse GIFs Show Earth Transforming Over 25 Years. Starting in the 1980s, Alaska’s Columbia Glacier began retreating, shrinking from 41 miles long (its originally documented length in 1794) to 36 miles long in 1995. This is what that change actually looks like from space. The images are part of the Timelapse project from Google and TIME, what Google calls “the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public.” It comes from a collection of images taken between 1984 and 2012 as part of the Landsat program, a joint satellite mission between NASA and U.S. Geological Survey that has been snapping pics of Earth’s surface since the early ’70s. Google Earth sifted through more than 2 million images to find the clearest photos of every place on Earth, and created a browsable HTML5 animation for the whole world, with one image for every year since 1984. Here’s how the Amazon rainforest has changed over the last 28 years: [Google via Gizmodo]
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Kung Fu Photo – China Picture. March 12, 2011 Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Boys at the Tagou school limber up before practicing a kung fu form called Chang Hu Xin Yi Men. After learning the basics, students choose to specialize in a martial arts style based on their interests and physical ability. See more photographs from the March 2011 feature story "Battle for the Soul of Kung Fu". Iraq Picture – Al Kazimiyah Shrine Photo. The Year in Pictures: Part I. The year in Pictures: Part II. The second collection of images from 2011 once again brought us nature at its full force with floods, drought, wild fires, tornadoes and spectacular images of volcanic eruptions. The death of Osama bin Laden, the attack on an island in Norway by a lone gunman, continued fighting in Libya, and protests around the globe were a few of the news events dominating the headlines. -- Lloyd Young Please see part 1 from Monday and watch for part 3 Friday. (45 photos total) A cloud of ash billowing from Puyehue volcano near Osorno in southern Chile, 870 km south of Santiago, on June 5.
Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in half a century on June 4, 2011, prompting evacuations for 3,500 people as it sent a cloud of ash that reached Argentina. The National Service of Geology and Mining said the explosion that sparked the eruption also produced a column of gas 10 kilometers (six miles) high, hours after warning of strong seismic activity in the area. (Claudio Santana/AFP/Getty Images) ) The Year in Pictures: Part III.