Time-Lapse Photography Shows Environmental Challenges

I thought readers might appreciate this collection of time-lapse images assembled by Time, NASA and the United States Geological Survey.  One can debate the meaning and ultimate effects of the sprawling growth of a single city like Las Vegas, Nevada, or the disappearance of a single obscure lake (Urmia).  I’m not sure it’s possible to be so dispassionate about the disappearance of the Amazon rainforests, the melting of the glaciers, and the advent of huge coal mines in Wyoming.