Washington-SANA
NASA has published a series of photos that show the devastating impact of climate change on the planet.
The British newspaper Daily Mail pointed out that the images taken from space and called (pictures of change) show different changes and effects of climate change on the ground, including floods and fires in a number of countries of the world, in addition to the shrinking of glaciers in New Zealand and the melting of ice in Canada and others.
The newspaper pointed out that the group consists of more than 500 pictures, including screenshots, that show the changes that have occurred on certain sites over a period of weeks or decades.
The group shows the reality of climate change on the ground, while a group of them shows that the Oak Glacier in Iceland has completely melted, forest fires have raged in Argentina and monsoon floods occurred in Pakistan.
The newspaper indicated that half of the pictures were taken before the event, and in some cases four decades ago. Half of these pictures show the same location after a major accident. The images of sea ice in the Arctic that were taken in the years 1984 and 2020 showed the remarkable change in the extent of the frozen area and explained Amount of melt in 36 years.
Researchers from the American Center for Ice and Snow Data revealed that 2020 witnessed the second lowest stretch of sea ice in the Arctic in the 42-year history of satellite records.
"It is very likely that summer sea ice in the Arctic will disappear completely during this century if the level of melting continues as current," NASA scientist Joy Comiso said.
The Daily Mail indicated that NASA also took pictures of human events showing a significant decrease in traffic levels in Wuhan in early 2020 at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, and the images were shared as an interactive exhibit on the NASA website where they could be compared and identified.