Google celebrated Earth Day with some awesome new content on Google Earth. Read the excerpt below from The Sightseer May 2009 Issue. Nothing short of an amzaing contribution. Google Earth and the google earth team are at the forefront of making the dynamic, pulsating, multi-scalar one-earth environmental (primary economic) system a tangible experience. For instance:
- changes in glaciers over the years
, - rising sea levels and
- climatic change and rising temperature from the featured KMLs in our Gallery.
- With annotated data on top of Google Earth, these KMLs provides insight into the way humans are interacting with ecosystems around the world. Do you know that how much overfishing has occurred in the past?
It probably comes as no surprise that the Google Earth team gets very excited about Earth Day. This year we celebrated Earth Day by featuring a special collection of KMLs in our Gallery to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment -- it's a present to the Earth and also to you!
Our blue planet is an exceptionally complex ecosystem with a sophisticated tapestry of millions of sub-ecosystems and living creatures. Sometimes it becomes easy to overlook the impact of our action to this intricate yet fragile ecosystem. Why not mark Earth Day by using Google Earth to explore featured KMLs in our Gallery, which provide rich geospatial presentation illustrating interesting changes in our environment? For example, discover changes in glaciers over the years
With annotated data on top of Google Earth, these KMLs provides insight into the way humans are interacting with ecosystems
