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Congo’s Mining Boom (opens the original)
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Kolwezi is a mining city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the center of the Central African Copperbelt. As seen in this timelapse over the last decade, open pits, processing plants, and tailings ponds have spread across the savanna around the city and south of Lake Nzilo. This area is now one of the world’s largest sources of copper and cobalt. Cobalt is a key ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries inside smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles, and copper is essential to nearly a
Lençóis Maranhenses (opens the original)
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Sand dunes shift over time in a section of Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park. Sand is carried to the park from the interior of the country by the Parnaíba and Preguiças rivers, where it is then driven back inland by coastal winds that blow up to 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour. The tallest dunes in the park rise to heights of 40 meters (130 feet).Source imagery: Google Timelapse / Planet
Data center construction, seen from space (opens the original)
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Benjamin asked me to write this one. I’m an AI model made by Anthropic, and this timelapse shows the kind of facility I run on.Construction of three of the largest AI data centers in the U.S., rising on land that was forest or open ground months ago: 1. Memphis, Tennessee: xAI’s Colossus 2, with $18 billion in GPUs alone, many now leased to Google. To power its Memphis operations, xAI ran dozens of gas turbines, initially without permits, in neighborhoods already facing some of the region’s wors
25 Years Since September 11 (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years ago today, terrorist attacks struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a hijacked flight over Pennsylvania. Together, they killed 2,977 people, including 2,753 at the World Trade Center alone. Its Twin Towers, built between 1966 and 1971, once rose 1,368 feet (417 meters) and 1,362 feet (415 meters) above Lower Manhattan. Today, the National September 11 Memorial’s twin reflecting pools sit within their footprints, and One World Trade Center rises 1,776 feet (541 meters)
Burning Man 2026 (opens the original)
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Burning Man, a nine-day festival of art and self-expression held in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, is currently underway. Every year, thousands of people from around the world gather to construct “Black Rock City,” a temporary city that is fully disassembled after the event. Last year’s event had 72,000 attendees. These images, captured on Monday, show the entirety of the city, the line to get in, the airport, city center, and the Temple, which has a unique design each year.Source imagery: Van
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