News tagged with eiffel tower

Lights go off around globe for Earth Hour

New York's Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Sydney Opera House were plunged into darkness for the annual Earth Hour campaign, leading a global effort to raise awareness about climate ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Earth Hour aims for hope in darkened world

Lights will go out around the world Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign, which this year will also mark Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Hi tech pays tribute to Eiffel Tower's 19th-century origins

Arguably the most widely recognised structure in the world, the Eiffel Tower was designed to stand for only 20 years -- and some predicted it would collapse long before then.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

From Beijing to Paris, world to go dark for Earth Hour

Global landmarks from Sydney's Opera House to the Forbidden City, to the glittering Las Vegas Strip, will be plunged into darkness Saturday as activists bid to reinvigorate the climate change fight.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4

'Cosmic opera' set for Paris tower

The rooftop of a Paris skyscraper is to be transformed into a cosmic-ray laboratory in an unusual week-long experiment due to start on Saturday.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Facebook helps find missing Nepalese skier in Paris

A teenage skier from the Nepalese national team who went missing while training in the Alps has been found wandering the streets of Paris thanks to a Facebook campaign, his team said Monday.

Technology / Internet

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Billion people invited to switch off lights

Around a billion people living in the world's major cities are being invited to turn off their lights at 8:30 p.m. local time on Saturday for "Earth Hour," described as the biggest mass campaign to demand ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (15) | comments 6