CNN by Matthew Knight (excerpts):  These satellite photos taken before and after recent floods in Thailand show how the landscape has been transformed.  The slide contrasts two identical areas of Southeast Asia taken on November 12, 2008 and November 1, 2011.  Captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite, the images show Thailand.  The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that around 200,000 hectares (~494,000 acres) of fa...
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