GOING DARK: From the Empire State Building in New York, to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, cities around the world shut the lights off at landmarks and tourist sites for Earth Hour Saturday night, in a call for global action on climate change.
Top tourist sites in coal-reliant Poland are turning off their lights at 8:30 p.m. in solidarity with global Earth Hour action calling for better climate protections.
In the southern renaissance city of Krakow, which sees millions of tourists from around the world each year, the central vaulted Cloth Market and the 14th-century red brick St. Mary's Basilica al turned off its lights. In Hong Kong, major buildings along Victoria Harbour turned off their non-essential lights at 8:30 p.m., and the city's popular tourist attraction known as the Symphony of Lights was canceled.
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