Today is Earth Day, a time to sit back and think about our wonderful planet, and some of us will be out picking up some trash, or just enjoying nature.
For those of you stuck inside due to weather, work, or other reasons – perhaps you might want to spend the day exploring our wonderful planet through the power of Google Earth. Here are a few links of stories from Google Earth Blog in the past year describing environmental related content available for viewing in Google Earth:
- Using Google Earth to prove a case of illegal waste dumping
- Giving a “pulse” to the Colorado River
- Using Google Earth to predict sea level rise
- Explore the Colorado River in Google Earth
- Viewing the GEBCO Global Ocean Map in Google Earth
- The Topography of Plate Tectonics in Google Earth
- View global warming trends with this new tool from UEA CRU
- Viewing the polar vortex in Google Earth
For more, you can check out our posts from 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 or 2009 and read stories that go back even further.
About Mickey Mellen
Mickey has been using Google Earth since it was released in 2005, and has created a variety of geo-related sites including Google Earth Hacks. He runs a web design firm in Marietta, GA, where he lives with his wife and two kids.
this collection of Earth Day stories is really inspiring. Thank you for gathering them and sharing them with us. These will come in handy while we (land surveyors around the planet) finish the planning and execution of Survey Earth in a Day 3D in June. This will be our 3rd year of surveying the entire earth in a single day. surveyearth.coom