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Google Doodle honours American woman scientist Eunice Newton Foote

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Google celebrated Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in identifying the greenhouse effect and a women's rights advocate, through an interactive doodle.

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Foote, the first to link rising CO2 levels with atmospheric warming, bolstered climate science in the 1800s, a time when women were excluded from the scientific community.

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Additionally, Foote was a committed feminist, being the fifth signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments, yet her accomplishments remained largely unrecognized for over a century after her death.

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