NASA releases comparative satellite photos of places, before and after climate change. Seeing it makes me astonished and scary.
Extreme rains create large and widespread flooding in South Sudan.
This image shows a decrease in snow cover in the Andes Mountains of southern Chile. in early 2022, compared to the same period in 2018
The vast expanse of sea ice in Larsen B bay (the water that borders the Antarctic Peninsula) has been crumbling away from the coast to which it has adhered since 2011.
Iran's Lake Urmia is one of the largest hypersaline (very salty) lakes in the world. It has been declared an Internationally Important Wetland and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. However, as reported by the United Nations Environment Program, the water level began to decline rapidly in the mid-1990s
Heavy monsoon rains, following tropical storms Dianmu and Kompasu, triggered landslides and flooding in Thailand in October 2021. According to the Thai space agency, about 5,200 square miles (13,600 square kilometers) were inundated on October 19, affecting more than a million people.
The Tibetan Plateau, home to tens of thousands of glaciers, is extremely sensitive to climate change. The 1987 image was taken when Dorsoidong Co (left) was still separated from Chibzhang Co by a thin strip of land. As the water in both lakes rises, eventually covering the barrier, merging the lakes by the time of image 2021.
The Grand Plateau Glacier is part of Glacier Bay National Park in southeastern Alaska. During the 35 years between these two images, the arms of the glacier flowing to the northwest and southwest shortened substantially.
Glacier Bay National Park, in southeastern Alaska, has lost ice. As shown in the 1986 image, the Muir Glacier once extended into Glacier Bay, a small bay in the Gulf of Alaska, where it formed an iceberg. But in the 2019 image, the glacier is no longer reaching the water.
Glacier Bay National Park, in southeastern Alaska, has lost ice. As shown in the 1986 image, the Muir Glacier once extended into Glacier Bay, a small bay in the Gulf of Alaska, where it formed an iceberg. But in the 2019 image, the glacier is no longer reaching the water.
Change on Cape Cod Beach, Massachusetts.
Changes in water level in Great Salt Lake, Utah in 2013 vs 2019.
Yellow River delta comparison in China 2013 vs 2019.
Glacier changes in Alaska's Desolation Lake
Comparison of Jakarta 15 September 2013 - 24 August 2019.
Lake Shasta is the largest reservoir in California and the third largest body of water, the main water source for Central Valley agriculture. But the drought has drained the lake.
The Great Lakes ice sheet has declined about 5% every decade since the early 1970s.
Deforestation in Papua, Indonesia
The collapse of the Greenland Spalte Glacier. Photo comparison 1984 - 2020.
Changes at Lake Milh in Iraq.
The bay has lost about a third of its polar bear population since the 1980s, down from about 1200 to 800, apparently because the decline in summer sea ice has given them fewer opportunities to forage. Photo comparison 1984 - 2020.
This image shows the subsidence of the water level in a section of the Paraná River, near Rosario, Argentina, during the time spans of 1984 and 2020. The differences are especially noticeable in the marshes, lagoons, and adjacent river deltas.
