Where Bengaluru's green cover went

By Aditya Goyal · October 2026 · A side project to see where the city's edge went from green to grey.

Since 2019, farmland, scrub and wetland on the city's edge were scraped bare, and lakes had roads and buildings pushed up to their water.

Drag the handle to compare February 2019 with February 2026. Coloured hexagons show where the satellite measured green lost; the dots are the places we checked by eye. Tap a dot to see what happened there.