The video reveals 40 years of environmental destruction in the Amazon

Google Earth and the Landsat program, NASA, have created what could be considered the closest thing to a virtual time machine to show the deforestation of the Amazon. In total, are 40 years of destruction and condensed in a few minutes.

To create the video, were organized, compiled and edited hundreds photographs of Amazonia collected by space satellites. Now, for the first time, you can see the result of decades of human activity in this land ecosystem and the consequent environmental destruction rates.

During the past 40 years, the Landsat has captured images of the sceneries, photographing the same area every 16 days, referred to the Inhabitat. The Landsat program was launched by NASA in 1972, in partnership with the US Geological Survey.

In addition to the deforestation of the Amazon, there are also videos about the drought of the Aral Sea and the Las Vegas urban explosion.

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