The United Nations Environment Program has just launched this Google map-enabled site with before/after satellite images showing environmental change over the past few decades: cities grow, forests are converted to farmland, glaciers shrink. We’re making something of the world, both for better and for worse.
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Skyscrapers not to scale
Skyscrapers not to scale
Of course in this rendering, Asia -- where the real population-concentration action's happening -- is just a bunch of spikes on the horizon.
Nate: 
I recently came across these amazing data driven globes from Yale’s G-Econ group. The one above represents population density, but their tool allows for all kinds of data to drive the topology from average rainfall to distance from coastlines.
"The World as Reported by the New York Times", very small array, 21 July 2008 :: via kottke.org
With the exception of Mongolia, contries near the interior of ther respective continents seem to get a lot less coverage: Paraguay, Hungary, Congo and Niger.
Nate: 