18 May Replica of Noah’s Ark to be built on Mount Ararat

In an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace activists are building a replica of Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat — (the spot where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood). The ark will be revealed in a ceremony on May 31, a day after Greenpeace activists climb the mountain and call on world leaders to take action to tackle climate change. “Climate change is real, it’s happening now and unless world leaders take urgent, decisive and far-reaching action, the next decades will see human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times,” said Greenpeace activist Hilal Atici. “Those leaders have a mandate from the people … to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions and to do it now.”

As many countries struggle to address global and national standards for carbon emissions, delegates from the U.N. are meeting this week in Germany to prepare for December negotiations on a new set of international rules for controlling emissions. The new accord would succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012.