Istanbul Airport

Construction of Istanbul Airport began in 2014 and took four years to complete. Most of its 19,000-acre (7,600-hectare) footprint was previously state-owned forest and some 658,000 trees were cleared to make way for its construction. The facility has an annual passenger capacity of 90 million people.

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Source imagery: NASA / Google Timelapse / Maxar

[ZRHTrainspotter]

Each removed tree has been replanted somewhere else

[iremozkan]

Without any doubt builders love green and nature

[tukicmaps]

Its not a disaster or anything tis photo looks different because its been taken from different sattelites

[uwumeow]

I think they could have made an airport on top of the sea. There are lots of examples in Japan and South Korea. It would at least have less of an impact on the forests.