Google Earth Update Offers, Dramatic Perspective <br />on Climate Change.<br />The update is the first significant change <br />for the popular satellite imaging app.<br />Using the new feature, Timelapse.<br />users can look at images of a particular <br />site all the way back to 1985.<br />Pressing the play button allows users to <br />watch how the site has changed over the decades.<br />Using Earth Engine, we combined more than 15 million satellite images from the past several decades collected by five different satellites, About Section of Google Earth's Timelapse, via IGN.<br />Google teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University's <br />CREATE Lab to come up with <br />a section called "Stories.".<br />In "Stories," users can focus on <br />Urban Expansion, Changing Forests, Sources <br />of Energy, Fragile Beauty or Warming Planet.<br />Each section highlights how human-caused <br />climate change and expansion <br />have impacted particular locations