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...
Spanish researchers Bernabé and José Moya couldn't trust their eyes. More than 20,000 hectares of backwoods were roasted. Be that as it may, amidst the annihilation, a gathering of cypresses was all the while standing tall and green. At the point when a flame cleared through an exploratory plot in Andilla, in the Spanish area of Valencia in 2012, it gave analysts the ideal open door. The plot, which was a piece of CypFire, an undertaking financed by the European Union, was built up amid the 1980s to test the resistance of more than 50 mixed bags of Mediterranean cypress to a pathogenic growth. After the flame occasion of 2012, it additionally gave further narrative confirmation of the impossible to miss versatility of the species even with flame. Botanist Bernabé Moya and his sibling, ecological specialist Jose Moya, both from the branch of amazing trees in Valencia, had been included in the venture for quite a long while. "On our a...