>""We want this to be very visceral and real for people, and a ray of hope that there's actually a lot we can do.""

Using 24 million satellite images over the course of 37 years (thanks to NASA) we see significant environmental changes happening all over the world. Sea ice in Greenland has melted as the planet warms, contributing to global sea level rise; intensification of deforestation in the Amazon; the Aral Sea drying up to a fraction of its size; bushfires that have impacted Yellabinna, Australia. The environmental costs of rapid urbanization are shown thanks to technology and Google Earth's new initiative to show the pressing need to enact substantial regulations for Climate Change.