Monuments, Countries Douse Lights for 'Earth Hour'

It was lights out in about 170 countries on Saturday as millions of people and thousands of cities took part in Earth Hour, a global effort to draw attention to climate change. The World Wide Fund for Nature organized the first Earth Hour in 2007 in Australia. The international effort began as a grass-roots event to urge people to reduce their use of energy as a way to help combat climate change. Dozens of well-known monuments, buildings and locales — from Red Square in Moscow...

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