Buildings around the world will go dark for 60 minutes this evening in a voluntary event known as Earth Hour. This grassroots effort was started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, by the Australian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (aka World Wildlife Fund), which encouraged Sydneysiders to show their support for climate action. Since then, it’s grown into a global movement to raise awareness of our energy consumption and the effects of climate change on our planet.
Here’s why landmarks are going dark
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Birds of a feather
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Happy Hobbit Day
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park turns 103
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This grizzly has Napping Day down
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Digging the birds
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Birds of the Drömling
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Al-Khazneh in Petra, Jordan
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A bridge of Madison County
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A bull, some flowers, and a stratovolcano
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Greece celebrates its independence
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Spotted Lake emerges
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From Sputnik to extraterrestrial storms
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A peak in the clouds
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Put your helmet on, we’re going for a hike
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In praise of the old…the very old
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A place fit for the gods
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Meet the slowest flirt in the animal world
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Don’t look down
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The view will stop you in your tracks