A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
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Taken by beginner Don Gutoski, the photo catches the minute a red fox pulls away the corpse of its Arctic cousin taking after a savage assault in Canada's Wapusk National Park. "It's the best picture I've ever taken in my life," Don told. "It's the heads' symmetry, the bodies and the tails - even the demeanor on the appearances." The two creatures' extents cover at Wapusk, which embraces the shore of Hudson Bay in Manitoba. What's more, if the bigger red gets a quick look at the Arctic inhabitant, it will attempt to originate before the northern species. Untamed life guides in the recreation center had talked about seeing the contention, yet this is thought to be one of the first situations where it has been archived on camera. Kathy Moran, who sat on the judging board, said the scene's awfulness was shockingly downplayed. "It doesn't appear to be bloody by any stretch of the imagination. On the off chance that certainty, when you first take a gander at the photo - it's very nearly as though the red fox is removing his winter coat."
Kathy, who is National Geographic magazine's senior manager for regular history ventures, likewise portrayed it as a picture with an intense message about environmental change. "As it gets hotter in the Arctic and sub-Arctic and the red fox can move assist north into the region possessed by the Arctic fox, you are going to get progressively these sorts of pressures," she said. Wear Gutoski was named as Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) on Tuesday, at a function at London's Natural History Museum. The NHM possesses and sorts out the opposition. The judges sorted through 42,000 passages submitted from right around 100 nations.
"A Tale of Two Foxes", as the triumphant picture is known, will now include in a presentation that will open at the exhibition hall on Friday some time recently, at a later date, going on visit.
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