Photos: The World’s Population Hits Eight Billion
Sometime yesterday (Tuesday), Earth's population surpassed eight billion people and these photos show the huge gatherings of humanity across the globe.
Sometime yesterday (Tuesday), Earth's population surpassed eight billion people and these photos show the huge gatherings of humanity across the globe.
2008 marked the first time in history that more of Earth's population lived in cities rather than in the countryside, and by 2050 nearly 70% of the world's population will reside in large cities. A new series of satellite photographs captured decades apart by NASA's Landsat department and the U.S. Geological Survey offers a striking look at how human cities have spread across the face of the Earth in just a few short years. The image above shows Las Vegas in 1984 and in 2011.
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