President Donald Trump is expected to harbinger on Thursday whether the US willwithdraw from the landmark Paris Agreementon climate change .
The international pact , which wassigned by every countryexcept Nicaragua and Syria , pose out a frameworkfor countries to reduce their fossil - fuel emissions to help keep the planet ’s overall temperature from rising by more than 2 stage Celsius . Since the Industrial Revolution , homo have had anunmistakable impacton Earth that has accelerated over clip . This wallop pops out in sharp relief when you look at thiscollection of imagesof what specific areas take care like now compared with about 70 years ago . In some case , the images — mostly from NASA , unless otherwise take down — were take as far as 50 years aside ; in others , they were snapped within 10 to 15 age of each other . watch As : One Page SlidesPhotographs from the forties to 2000s show the drastic essence of climate modification on our planet ’s glacier . Here are photos of Alaska ’s Muir Glacier in August 1941 , left , and August 2004 .
Here ’s the snow that stay on the Matterhorn mint in Switzerland in August 1960 liken with August 2005 .
start in the 1970s , NASA began using satellite paradigm to text file deforestation in several internal parks around the earth . Here ’s Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda in 1973 compared with 2005 .
The deforestation of a forest in Salta , Argentina , is starkly seeable in this couplet of photos from 1972 and 2009 .
More deforestation is seeable in Kenya ’s Mau Forest in these photo from 1973 and December 2009 .
A interchangeable story applies to Kenya ’s Lake Nakuru National Park , shown here in 1973 and 2000 .
Deforestation is also prevalent in the South American Atlantic Forest in Paraguay — here ’s how it looked in 1973 versus 2008 .
This surface area of Rondonia , Brazil , was to a great extent deforested between 1975 and 2009 .
So was the Baban Rafi Forest in Niger from 1976 to 2007 .
These image show the deforestation of Mount Kenya Forest in Kenya in 1976 versus 2007 .
mood change began to take a more extreme cost on glaciers in the seventies . Here are photos of the Qori Kalis Glacier in Peru in 1978 and 2011 .
These double document melting ice in Ecuador from March 1986 to February 2007 .
begin in the 1980s , NASA also documented shrinking lakes across the globe , set out with this photo of Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado in 1987 . It ’s shown on the right in 2011 .
The Aral Sea in primal Asia shrunk drastically between 2000 and 2014 .
So did the Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico . Here it is in 1994 and 2013 .
river have been recoil in Arizona and Utah as well — these images compare them in March 1999 and May 2014 .
Argentina ’s Mar Chiquita Lake shrunk importantly from 1998 to 2011 .
And deforestation remain to take a toll , as evidence by this pair of images of the Mabira Forest in Uganda in 2001 and five long time later .
drought have touch the US intensely over the past few eld as well . Here are three images of water drying up in Kansas , take in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 .
Iran ’s shrinking Lake Urmia is see below in July 2000 and July 2013 .
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