What have we done with the Earth

Let's learn together about how humanity has changed the planet Earth over the past half century. The fruits of our labors are clearly demonstrated on the special NASA Images of change website, where photographs taken at intervals of 5, 10, 50, 100 years (primarily satellite) show how it was — and how it became. Melting glaciers, drying up lakes, coastal erosion, the onset of deserts…

However, there was a place in the selection for the few achievements of mankind: from the greening of the Libyan desert under Gaddafi to the explosion of the Soviet dam in 1992, which saved the unique Kara-Bogaz-Gol Bay.

Muir Glacier (Alaska) in 1882 and 2005

Landscaping of the desert

Economy and coastline

Echo of Chernobyl

Melting ice in the Alps

Global warming

Saving Kara-Bogaz-Gol

Air purification

Artificial islands

Goodbye, Kilimanjaro ice!

Deforestation

Saddam and Kuwait's oil fields

Pedersen Glacier (Alaska) in 1917 and 2005

Gold mining in California

Drying up of lakes

Dam

The Great man-made River