Empire State Building, New York
Jakarta, Indonesia
Petronas Twin Towers Kuala Lumpur, Malasia
Sydney, Austrailia
Berlin, Germany
Gateway of India
Dubai
Giza Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt
Hong Kong, China
Lights went out all around the planet Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30pm local time to observe Earth Hour 2009, a global event designed to highlight the threat from climate change. From tourism landmarks to individual homes around the planet people turned off or dimmed light to do their part to reduce the effects of harmful exhaust emissions.
Australia first held Earth Hour in 2007 and it went global in 2008, attracting 50 million people. The World Wildlife Fund, which organized the event, estimated at least one billion people from nearly 90 countries took part this year.
More than 370 world landmarks that switched off their lights included Mexico City’s Angel of Independence, Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Reserve Bank in Mumbai, the dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Egypt's Great Pyramids and the Acropolis in Athens. The word "Earth Hour" in Arabic and English was lit with candles amid Dubai's high-rise buildings.
Even Las Vegas, a city known to never turn the lights off, plunged into darkness as the symbolic energy-saving exercise unfolded across the globe. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Empire State Building in New York, and the city skylines across the U.S. went dark or at least went dim.
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