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Solar-powered plane flies over Statue of Liberty, lands in New York in bid to circle the globe

2016-06-11 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: The solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 airplane made it to New York City in the wee hours of Saturday morning, concluding the last leg of its United States trip in a bid to fly around the world. The experimental plane which runs purely on solar power landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport at 3:59 a.m. ET after a four-hour and 41 minute flight from Pennsylvania. Before the plane came in for a landing, it flew around the Statue of Liberty, producing a stunning image of the American icon...

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Statue of Liberty and Venice under climate change threat, UN report

2016-05-26 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Climate change now poses the single biggest threat to the worlds most famous heritage sites including the Galápagos islands, the Statue of Liberty, Easter Island and Venice according to a UN sponsored report. The researchers looked at 31 natural and cultural world heritage sites in 29 countries that are vulnerable to increasing temperatures, melting glaciers, rising seas, more intense weather, worsening droughts and longer wildfire seasons. They believe this number is the tip of the iceberg....

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Lenin statue transformed into Darth Vader WiFi hotspot

2015-10-27 13:59:15| Wireless - Topix.net

What's a city to do with old statues of dead leaders from fallen regimes? One could topple them over and/or melt them down, as is somewhat common, or could approach the matter from a more artsy perspective, and give them a makeover instead. One Ukrainian artist did just that with an old Vladimir Lenin statue located in Odessa, where it now stands tall as a different sort of leader: Darth Vader.

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