Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada
Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada

One of the world’s largest reserves of oil sits under the boreal fores...

Bakken Oil Boom, North Dakota, USA
Bakken Oil Boom, North Dakota, USA

Even though oil is underground, Landsat images can reveal related land...

Chuquicamata Mine, Chile
Chuquicamata Mine, Chile

The Atacama Desert of northern Chile has minimal vegetation. But it ha...

Diamond Mines, Northwest Territories, Canada
Diamond Mines, Northwest Territories, Canada

The frozen tundra of northern Canada might not be the first place you’...

Escondida Mine, Chile
Escondida Mine, Chile

Isolated in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, the open-pit Escondida Mi...

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

In a remote part of the Western Australia outback lies one of the worl...

Mesabi Range, Minnesota, USA
Mesabi Range, Minnesota, USA

The boom times of iron ore mining in northern Minnesota are long gone,...

Mountaintop Mining, West Virginia, USA
Mountaintop Mining, West Virginia, USA

Mountaintop coal mining is a major cause of land cover changes in the ...

Muskingum Mines, Ohio, USA
Muskingum Mines, Ohio, USA

These images show shifting strip mines in eastern Ohio, from 1973 to 2...

Orlando, Florida, USA
Orlando, Florida, USA

The physical growth of Orlando, Florida, especially to the east and so...

Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA
Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA

Every day, 100 empty trains enter Wyoming. They leave fully loaded wit...

Salar de Atacama, Chile
Salar de Atacama, Chile

If you like being connected to the world everywhere you go with a smar...

The Everglades and Miami, Florida, USA
The Everglades and Miami, Florida, USA

Referred to as the “River of Grass,” the Florida Everglades is one of ...

Yanacocha Mine, Peru
Yanacocha Mine, Peru

The expanding Yanacocha Mine dominates the land change seen in this se...