For Google today, the capital letter “G” represents much more than a “guh” sound, a measurement of the force of gravity, or a cool way to describe how many thousands of dollars someone has. because this earth dayand in creative Google style, the company has found a way to make the first letter of its logo express one-seventh of a timely reminder: that the planet we live on is as fragile as it is durable, and that decision depends on policymakers, energy leaders, and wildlife organizations to protect it.
In honor of celebrating our world this year, a Google doodle replaced the company’s usual sans-serif logo with aerial images of spherical surface features that naturally resemble letters. Moreover, each selected feature is connected to a story; These include, among other things, the following stories: climate change and examples of climate resilience, calls to action for animal welfare, and rebuilding degraded landscapes.
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Here’s a recap of that capital “G” and the other six-sevenths of Google’s Earth Day tribute.
There’s the “G” at the beginning, of course, the Turks and Caicos islands, which Google says are home to important biodiversity areas and an endangered species of iguana: the rock iguana. That’s why conservation efforts are ongoing in this area, aiming at things like protecting the area’s natural resources and ensuring the rock iguana is allowed to thrive in the face of human-caused climate change.
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The first of two “it”s on Google today is a deep blue view from Mexico’s Scorpion Reef National Park. It is the largest reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico and is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. place of scientists testing different ways to understand how various ecosystems interact with each other. “The marine sanctuary serves as a refuge for complex corals and many endangered species of birds and turtles.” Google writes in the description of the article.
In the description, the second “o” takes you to a portal of concentric rings in Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park; this portal only gained national park status in 2008, after “decades of advocacy”. Vatnajökull National Park is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. what does this mean It is considered to have specific, universal value, being the best or more “outstanding” worldwide in terms of heritage and culture. Google says it’s Europe’s largest glacier and is home to a “mixture of volcanoes and glacial ice” that produces “rare landscapes and vegetation.”
This extremely familiar-looking track, which turns into a lowercase “g” in doodle, comes from Brazil’s Jaú National Park, another UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is actually located in the Amazon rainforest. “Margay protects a wide variety of species, including the jaguar, giant otter, and Amazonian manatee,” Google writes.
Today, the last two letters of Google’s name, a cliff for the letter “l” and a winding green grove for the letter “e”, come from the Great Green Wall, Nigeria, and the Pilbara Islands Nature Reserves, Australia, respectively. The Great Green Wall is associated with an African-led effort to restore land across the country that has been destroyed by desertification, or the process by which a piece of land loses vegetation over time. So the effort is focused on planting trees, for example, to help the area retreat towards the lush end of the spectrum. “This also provides increased economic opportunity, food security, and climate resilience to people and communities in the region,” Google writes.
Meanwhile, Google explains that the Pilbara Islands are one of 20 nature reserves in Australia, which aim to protect ecosystems and habitats of animals, including endangered species such as sea turtles, shorebirds and seabirds.
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It’s touching that these seven snapshots of Earth live among a ton more photos, in a video released by Google outlining the doodle’s creation process. Of course, this shows how many of our planet’s surface features look oddly like alphabet soup, but the fact that such an Earth alphabet soup exists also shows how. A lot have surface features Soil. Only then, in terms of probability, would there be enough to get a group to choose the best seven to feature on the search engine’s site.
We’ve been through some pretty internal climate reflections lately. hottest year on record and period of existence caught in forest fire smoke — both are direct results of human activities like burning coal — so this Earth Day feels a little more devastating. It’s remarkable that we live on a delightful blue globe, and the fact that we only have one is both stressful and special.