On World Earth Day Google Doodle is a real time-lapse view of climate change’s effect on the planet
New Delhi: Earth Day is observed every year on April 22. This year, the theme for Earth Day 2022 is “Invest In our Planet”. Stressing on the ‘time is now and calling for urgent climate action, Earth Day 2022 calls people to, “Act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It’s going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens — everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable. A partnership for the planet.”
This is the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 that demonstrating against the impacts of 150 years of industrial development which had left a growing legacy of serious human health impacts. Since then according to Earth Day Organisation, the day has helped mobilise one billion people and engaged over 190 countries.
Another tackles the visible bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and its corals near Lizard Island, Australia over a few months in 2016.
Two of the time-lapse portray glacial melting, albeit in two various areas. One shows the retreat of glaciers at thee summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania from 1986 to 2020, while the other shows reduced ice coverage and melted glaciers in Sermersooq, Greenland from 2000 to 2020.
Source: The Hindu