Africa: Then and Now

Thursday, June 26, 2008 around 10 am mountain

Remarkable satellite images of Africa showing stark changes in the continent’s landscape over the past half century years from NatGeo. This one below shows Kilimanjaro.

Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro has seen dramatic glacial retreat between 1976 (left) and 2006. The mountaintop glacial area has decreased 80 percent since the early 20th century, says a UN atlas released on June 11, 2008.

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