Google Earth updates Timelapse, "with four additional years of imagery, petabytes of new data, and a sharper view of the Earth from 1984 to 2016."

Not all is beautiful, though: "The new Jirau Dam, spanning Brazil’s Madeira River, may be an unalloyed good for the people who will have new or improved electrical service, but it’s less good for the villages that were uprooted and the 1,400 miles of jungle that were strung with electrical cables to make the project possible. Still elsewhere the story is one of disaster—as it was in Fukushima, Japan, where a 2011 tsunami deluged a nuclear power plant, endangering millions."

Makes us think of Ventusky's animated weather maps.

In this series, two expats in China ride around on motorcycles and have conversations about their adopted land. Granted, some of the conversations might seem churlish. Recommended are the street-level views of areas, particularly ruined ones, not often popularized by western cameras.