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10 Very Scary Images Showing How Our Planet Has Changed in Just few Decades

  • 1:21 pm May 17, 2021
  • suhas

Our world has seen a lot in merely few decades. The amount of development that we see today is a result of hard work of just few years. But this development has come at the cost of our mother nature. Here are 10 images that show how much our world has changed in just few decades.

Deforestation

Massive amount of deforestation took place in San Julián, Bolivia. This image clearly shows the change in greens in that area.



Melting Glaciers

The melting of glaciers is one of the biggest byproducts of Global Warming. Thanks to all this melting, there is an increase in the level of water in the oceans which further creates an alarming situation for a lot of coastal biggies!

The Canadian problem

Now Canada has an oil sand deposit that may become the new big problem for our environment.



Loss Of Lakes

Our world is facing a massive challenge when it comes to saving its water bodies due to heavy industrialization. Here you are looking at the Aral Sea, between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Go Green!

Not everything that happened in the world in last few decades was bad for the environment. In this image you can see the restoration of an ecological reserve that had been drying up during the last century in China. This initiative, called the “Great Green Wall” as a reference to the wall built back in the 7th century.



In Antarctica

It ain't a surprise that Antarctica is slowly losing its glaciers. This can be very harmful for our earth.

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Good thing!

Here's another heart warming thing that happened in the world. Abandoned crops transformed into lush green forests in Russia

Change In Color

Nature never ever shies away from showing us its charms. The first image above is of the pink lake. Due to its high salinity, temperature is more than 40°C (104 °F), and an alkalinity that can reach a pH of greater than 12, it’s one of the most lethal and dangerous lakes on Earth. Depending on the time of the year, algae and bacteria proliferate in it, causing its color to change.

New Island

The difference that you see is the new island in Dubai. Dubai’s Palm Islands!

The New Powerplant

And here you see a new photovoltaic powerplant in China! Not good for future, is it?