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...
The present El Nino climate marvel could be one of the most grounded on record, as indicated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The occasion happens when the waters of the Pacific turn out to be particularly warm and misshape climate designs the world over. Analysts say parts of the Pacific are prone to be 2C hotter than normal. The WMO says that the current year's occasion is fortifying and will top before the current year's over. The most grounded El Nino on record was in 1997-98, however occasions were fundamentally over the standard in 1972-73 and again ten years after the fact in 1982-83. Researchers say that the occasion now in progress is sending ocean temperatures in parts of the Pacific to levels not seen subsequent to the late 1990s. In an announcement the WMO said that this El Nino was gathering quality. "Models and master feeling recommend that surface water temperatures in the east-focal tropical Pacifi...