South Africans saved 350MW during Earth Hour

During Earth Hour on Saturday, South Africans saved 350 megawatts of electricity, enough to power Bloemfontein for a whole day, Eskom said.

Lights off as Earth Hour circles the globe

Lights went off around the world on Saturday as landmark buildings and ordinary homes flipped their switches.

Earth Hour aims for hope in darkened world

Lights will go out around the world on Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign.

Tuvalu to Times Square: Landmarks off for Earth Hour

Landmarks such as Sydney's Opera House, Beijing's Forbidden City and Taiwan's Taipei 101 office tower temporarily went dark on Saturday.

Earth Hour gets under way in Australia, Pacific islands

Sydney's Harbour Bridge and Opera House temporarily went dark on Saturday as nations across the western Pacific turned out the lights for Earth Hour.

From Beijing to Las Vegas, world to go dark for Earth Hour

Global landmarks from Sydney's Opera House to the Forbidden City, to the glittering Las Vegas Strip, will be plunged into darkness on Saturday.

From Antartica to Egypt, lights dim for Earth Hour

From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Empire State Building in New York, patches of the globe went dark on Saturday.

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