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Using Google Earth to See Destruction

Posted by samzenpus on from the mr-peabody's-coal-train-has-hauled-it-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On Monday, an environmental advocacy group [Appalachian Voices] joined with Google to deliver a special interactive layer for Google Earth. This new layer will tell "the stories of over 470 mountains that have been destroyed from coal mining, and its impact on nearby ecosystems. Separately, the World Wildlife Fund has added the ability to visit its 150 project sites using Google Earth."

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  1. Link to the tutorial by helge · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those who actually want to try out this, go to http://ilovemountains.org/memorial_tutorial/. It describes which layers to turn on in Google Earth to be able to see the Appalachian mountains removal.