A Day in the Life of Earth

If you think the Earth takes millions of years to change, it’s time to think again! Every minute the inner earth creates new land, every hour the world’s glaciers move mountains and before you go to sleep a cloud of dust from the Sahara will have flown across the Atlantic and fertilized the Amazon.

Every minute, new land is born. Every hour, tons of rock arrive from space. Before you go to sleep, a cloud of dust from the Sahara will have fertilized the Amazon. And while all that was happening, the North Pole moved nearly 150 meters.