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Greenpeace activists attempt to climb London's Shard
2013-07-11 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of activists from Greenpeace was on Thursday attempting to climb the Shard, the tapered 310m glass tower next to London Bridge station, as a protest against oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. In an action that was perhaps inevitable at some point after the completion last year of western Europe's tallest building, visible across much of central London, the six climbers began their ascent in the early hours of the morning. The Twitter feed for Greenpeace UK carried a photograph of the...
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