EARTH DAY

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Context: Today’s Doodle artwork of the Google search engine is dedicated to the annual Earth Day and addresses the issue of climate change.

More about news:

• Google Doodle has issued real time-lapse imagery to show the impact of climate change across four different locales around Earth.
• The first Doodle includes real imagery of a glacier retreat at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The images used in the time-lapse have been taken each December from 1986 to 2020.
• Another imagery shows a glacier retreat in Sermersooq, Greenland using the images taken every December from 2000 to 2020.
• The third imagery that will appear on the Google homepage will be of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, showing the coral bleaching on Lizard Island. The images used in the Doodle have been taken every month from March to May 2016.
• The fourth and the last Doodle shows the Harz forests in Elend, Germany, destroyed by bark beetle infestation due to the rising temperatures and severe drought. The images have been taken every December from 1995 to 2020.

About Earth Day:

• It is celebrated on April 22 every year to mark the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
• It is an annual event that demonstrates support for environmental protection.
• First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.
• The official theme for 2022 is Invest In Our Planet.
• In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.
• It features five primary programs:
  • The Great Global Cleanup
  • Sustainable Fashion
  • Climate and Environmental Literacy
  • Canopy Project, Food and Environment, and
  • the Global Earth Challenge.

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