Satellite images show: This is what the climate crisis around the world looks like
Google has released alarming satellite images that show some of the damage from climate change: melting glaciers, felled forests and destroyed coral reefs.
Around the world we marked Earth Day with demonstrations and rallies - in Europe, the United States and also in Ukraine
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22/04/2022
Friday, 22 April 2022, 18:57 Updated: 19:13
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Demonstration against US climate crisis (Photo: Reuters, Evelyn Hockstein)
Around the world today (Friday) marked Earth Day with demonstrations and rallies calling for a halt to the use of pollutants and a shift to renewable energy.
In Berlin, Warsaw and Brussels many demonstrators gathered under government offices;
About a dozen protesters also gathered in Lvov, Ukraine.
In the United States, activists from the "Extinction Rebellion" group blocked a newspaper printing facility and called for expanded media coverage of the climate crisis.
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The retreat of the glaciers in Greenland (Photo: screenshot, from Google)
Damage to corals on the Great Barrier Reef (Photo: Screenshot, Corals)
Google has released satellite images showing the changes on Earth in recent years - melting glaciers, felled forests and bleached corals.
In the photos you can see the retreat of the glaciers at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania between December 1986 and 2020, the melting glaciers in Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020 and more.
Forests cut down in Germany (Photo: screenshot, from Google)
The retreat of the glaciers at the summit of Kilimanjaro (Photo: screenshot, from Google)
Demonstration against London climate crisis (Photo: Reuters, Toby Melville)
At the end of February, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report stating that the effects of the climate crisis could include damage to human health and the whole of humanity, along with the disappearance of settlements and refugee waves.
"The world is not ready for the effects of climate change," UN scientists warned. "The crisis is bigger than we expected." The document states that even a temporary rise of more than 1.5 degrees could lead to irreversible damage.
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