360 Cities

360cities.net is the Virtual Reality network offering its entire collection of fully spherical views in the PhotoOverlay format on Google Earth 4.2. It allows you to browse panoramas from all over the world in Google Earth's three-dimensional environment.

Open in Internet Explorer (Recommended)

Open in Google Earth (Might take long)

Arctic Sea Ice

Arctic Ice Cap shrinks to record size.

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Open in Google Maps

Source: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?

Australia's National Pollutant Inventory

The National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) is a publicly accessible database containing information on the types and amounts of pollutants being emitted to the Australian environment.

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Open in Google Maps

Source: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/938433/an/0/page/0#938433

IceTrek iceberg tracks

Explore the lifecycle of drifting Antarctic icebergs, and watch photos from instruments riding on the bergs

Open in Google Earth (KMZ, 6.7 MB)


Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

Antarctic Glaciological Data Center field data

Access Antarctic images and data sets from the Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC)

Open in Google Earth (KMZ, 11 KB)

Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

Permafrost, ground ice

View permafrost and ground ice types and extents in the Northern Hemisphere


Open in Google Earth (KML, 8 KB)


Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

Nordic Seas ice edge

Watch changes in the sea ice edge in the Nordic Seas, from 1967 to 2002, for the months March through August.

Open in Google Earth (KML, 892 KB)

Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

NISE* daily sea ice concentration

Daily sea ice concentration for the two months leading up to the record Arctic sea ice minimum extent in September 2007

Open in Google Earth (KMZ, 612 KB)


Note: See Time Series in Google Earth to animate these images.

Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

*NISE (Near Real-Time Ice and Snow Extent)

Greenland annual surface melt, 1979 - 2007

View the extent and frequency of surface melt for the Greenland ice sheet.

Open in Google Earth (KMZ, 404 KB)

Note: See Time Series in Google Earth to animate these images.

Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

GLIMS ASTER glacier footprints

View approximately 150,000 ASTER browse images over regions of the world where glaciers exist (from 2000-present)

Open in Google Earth (KMZ, 4 KB)

Note: See Time Series in Google Earth to animate these images.

Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

Breakup of the Larsen B ice shelf

Watch the disintegration of the Larsen B ice shelf in 2002, as captured in MODIS satellite images

Open in Google Earth (KMZ, 3MB)

Note: See Time Series in Google Earth to animate these images.

Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

Sea ice

Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extents from 1979 through present for March and September (animated data time series)

Open in Google Earth (KMZ, 481 KB)

Note: See Time Series in Google Earth to animate these images.

Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/

Glaciers

Photographs of more than 4,000 glaciers.

Open in Google Earth (KML, 8 KB)

Source: http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/