This Earth Day, Google is dedicating its Doodle to how badly we’re messing up our beloved planet. It’s really form of a cool Doodle. Four completely different GIFs present time lapses of dramatic adjustments pushed by local weather change.

From Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, you’ll see footage of brilliant corals shedding their coloration beneath the stress of hotter waters. Corals live creatures that get their coloration from algae of their tissues with which they’ve a symbiotic relationship. Under stress, together with rising ocean temperatures, corals lose that algae in a miserable phenomenon known as “bleaching.”

A sixth mass bleaching occasion struck the Great Barrier Reef this yr, in accordance with the marine park’s authority in March. It’s one of many penalties of the world warming by greater than 1 diploma Celsius. One extra diploma of warming may wipe out 99 percent of the world’s reefs. The time-lapse on Google’s doodle exhibits bleaching in 2016, when there was one other mass bleaching occasion. The pictures come from the nonprofit The Ocean Agency.

Two different GIFs present glaciers vanishing from Sermersooq, Greenland, and from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania over a number of a long time. Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano, and is one in every of solely three peaks in Africa topped with glaciers. If these glaciers proceed to retreat on the fee they’re melting now, they may completely disappear inside simply a few a long time.

Google’s final GIF depicts forest destruction in Elend, Germany. Here, grey carcasses of lifeless bushes have earned components of Harz National Park the title Harzer Silberwald, or Harz Silver Forest, according to locals. The carnage is the results of devastating drought that weakened bushes, leaving them extra inclined to assault from bark beetles.

In the previous, Google has come beneath scrutiny from advocacy teams over climate-denying advertisements that slipped previous its coverage banning such misinformation. Clicking on at present’s Doodle will lead you to data Google has curated on the continuing local weather disaster.