Google marks Earth Day with doodle showing stark impacts of the climate crisis

Google is marking Earth Day on Friday with a doodle of time lapses, highlighting how the climate crisis is radically changing the planet.

The search engine published a series of time-lapse satellite images from Google Earth, depicting deforestation, melting glaciers, coral bleaching and retreating snow cover, as a stark reminder of humans' impact on the climate and environment.

The images -- four GIFs from four different parts of the world -- will each remain on the homepage for several hours at a time throughout the day, Google said in a statement, in a bid...