NEW DELHI: The world is celebrating the annual Earth Day today to promote global awareness about environmental protection and conservation. Google too dedicated a doodle on the occasion addressing one of the most pressing topics of the time: Climate change.
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
The search engine has created a series of animations of four locations to show how climate change has impacted our planet. Using real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth Timelapse and other sources, the doodle showcases the impact of climate change across four different locales around our planet. “Acting now and together to live more sustainably is necessary to avoid the worst effects of climate change,” the search giant said in an official blog post.
Every year, Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 as a reminder to protect the planet and make it sustainable for our future generations. It was first held on April 22, 1970. The official theme for 2022 is ‘invest in our planet’.