Earth Day 2024 Google Doodle: Google Showcases Aerial Photos Of The Planet's Natural Beauty
Earth Day 2024 Google Doodle: Amid ongoing heatwaves across India, Google is celebrating the annual Earth Day 2024 today with its unique artwork of Doodle. Today's Google Doodle highlights the planet¡¯s natural beauty, biodiversity, and resources.
Every year as the world marks Earth Day on 22 April, Google promotes environment protection and includes several steps in our day-to-day lives that can help to fight against global warming.?
About the Earth Day 2024 Doodle?
Today's Earth Day Doodle describes how individuals and communities can work together to save our earth. The Google letters showcase some of the places across the globe where people, communities and governments work every day to help protect the planet¡¯s natural beauty, biodiversity and resources. These examples offer the promise of hope and optimism, but also remind us that there's much more to do to address the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
Earth Day 2024 Google Doodle Letters
G: Turks and Caicos Islands. The islands are home to important biodiversity areas with conservation efforts aimed at addressing ongoing environmental challenges, including protecting natural resources and reefs and restoring endangered species like the Turks and Caicos Islands rock iguana.
O: Scorpion Reef National Park, Mexico. Also known as Arrecife de Alacranes, this is the largest reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico and UNESCO biosphere reserve. The marine protected area serves as a refuge for complex coral and several endangered bird and turtle species.
O: Vatnaj?kull National Park, Iceland. Established as a national park in 2008 after decades of advocacy, this UNESCO World Heritage Site protects the ecosystem in and around Europe¡¯s largest glacier. The mix of volcanoes and glacial ice produce rare landscapes and flora.
G: Ja¨² National Park, Brazil. Also known as Parque Nacional do Ja¨², this is one of South America¡¯s largest forest reserves and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, it protects a huge range of species, including the margay, jaguar, giant otter, and the Amazonian manatee.
L: Great Green Wall, Nigeria. Started in 2007, this African Union-led initiative is restoring land affected by desertification across the width of Africa, planting trees and other vegetation while implementing sustainable land management practices. This also provides the people and communities in the area with increased economic opportunities, food security, and climate resilience.
E: Pilbara Islands Nature Reserves, Australia. Located by one of the Pilbara Island Nature Reserves, one of 20 nature reserves in Australia that help protect fragile ecosystems, increasingly rare natural habitats, and a number of threatened or endangered species¡ªincluding multiple species of marine turtles, shorebirds, and seabirds.
Across the globe, more and more individuals are turning to Google to find ways to lead a more sustainable lifestyle. Today, billions of people worldwide will mark Earth Day, serving as a reminder to adopt sustainable practices throughout the year and to persist in efforts to conserve water, electricity, and other resources.
Earth Day 2024: All You Need To Know
Gaylord Nelson, a US senator and environmentalist, along with Harvard University graduate student Denis Hayes, organized it for the first time. Concerned about environmental damage in the US, particularly following a significant oil spill in Santa Barbara, California, in 1969, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Hayes planned the event. On April 22, 1970, 20 million American citizens took to the streets across the country to protest against environmental crises such as water pollution, oil spills, forest fires, and air pollution. The street protest gained widespread attention and rapidly spread as hundreds of cities gradually joined the movement, making it one of the biggest protests globally.
Theme Of Earth Day 2024
The theme for Earth Day 2024 is "Planet vs. Plastics ." This theme emphasizes the need for collective action to repair and heal the planet's ecosystems, combat climate change, and preserve biodiversity.
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