{"id":46836,"date":"2012-04-30T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46836"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:31:37","slug":"nasa-photos-of-a-changing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/30\/nasa-photos-of-a-changing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Photos of a Changing World"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA has posted a series of pairs of satellite images that show a range of changes around the world. They’re great for illustrating human-environment interactions; some of the changes are directly human-caused, while others, while others show the changing consequences of floods and fires as our settlement and agricultural patterns change.<\/p>\n

For those of us living in Las Vegas, these images of the shrinking Lake Mead reservoir<\/a>, which provides water and electricity, is not reassuring. The reservoir has gotten smaller due to multiple factors, including a long-term drought and more water being taken from the Colorado River upstream:<\/p>\n

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Deforestation in Niger<\/a>, as land has increasingly been turned over to agriculture:<\/p>\n

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Here, we see increasing urban growth around Denver International Airport<\/a>, which now takes up 53 square miles of what used to be farmland:<\/p>\n

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Algal blooms due to agricultural and household runoff into Lake Atitlan, Guatemala<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Changes to the Sonoran coastline<\/a> in Mexico due to shrimp farming:<\/p>\n

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The dramatic shrinking of the Aral Sea<\/a>, largely due to the amount of water taken out of rivers for irrigation:<\/p>\n

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The full set<\/a> of 167 paired images is really striking, and if viewed in the “all images” layout, you can select among various topics, focusing on cities, water, human impacts, and so on.<\/p>\n

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NASA has posted a series of pairs of satellite images that show a range of changes around the world. They’re great for illustrating human-environment interactions; some of the changes are directly human-caused, while others, while others show the changing consequences of floods and fires as our settlement and agricultural patterns change. For those of us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,126,2123,2124,1826,341],"class_list":["post-46836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demography","tag-disaster","tag-environmentnature","tag-foodagriculture","tag-geographymaps","tag-ruralurban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46846,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46836\/revisions\/46846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}