Time-Lapse GIFs Show Earth Transform Over 25 Years

Satellite images from every year since 1984 show the march of human progress--and the retreat of nature. Starting in the 1980s, Alaska's Columbia Glacier began retreating, shrinking from 41 miles long (its originally documented length in 1794) to 36 miles long in 1995. This is what that change actually looks like from space. The images are part of the Timelapse project from Google and TIME, what Google calls "the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public...