Watch the Earth transform in front of your eyes in these incredible Google Timelapses
▻http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-timelapse-satellite-update
The Aral Sea has been drying out since the 1960s due to Soviet irrigation programmes. By 2007 it had been reduced to just 10 per cent of its original volume.
Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it - George Monbiot
►https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-monbiot-misinformation
Understandably, there has been plenty of coverage of the racists and white supremacists empowered by Trump’s victory. But, gruesome as they are, they’re peripheral to the policies his team will develop. It’s almost comforting, though, to focus on them, for at least we know who they are and what they stand for. By contrast, to penetrate the corporate misinformation machine is to enter a world of mirrors. Spend too long trying to understand it, and the hyporeality vortex will inflict serious damage on your state of mind.
Don’t imagine that other parts of the world are immune. Corporate-funded thinktanks and fake grassroots groups are now everywhere. The fake news we should be worried about is not stories invented by Macedonian teenagers about Hillary Clinton selling arms to Islamic State, but the constant feed of confected scares about unions, tax and regulation drummed up by groups that won’t reveal their interests.