Italian astronaut and current International Space Station (ISS) commander Luca Parmitano speaks through an in-flight connection from space to panelists including United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Spain's Sience Minister Pedro Duque at the High-Level event on Global Climate Action during the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain December 11, 2019. REUTERS/Susana Vera
MADRID (Reuters) - Awed by the blue-green hues swirling across the marble-like surface of the Earth below, an Italian astronaut made an emotional appeal from space on Wednesday for world leaders to pull their "heads out of the sand" over climate change.
Speaking via video link from the International Space Station, Luca Parmitano told a session at a U.N. summit in Madrid that his vantage point afforded him a unique perspective on the devastating impact of hurricanes and floods.
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