Word: planet
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...global conversation these days, there's one constant, no matter where you are - concern over the state of the planet. Whether it's climate change, pollution, habitat depletion, a lack of clean water or the loss of precious species, people everywhere worry about where we are going and how we can ensure that we hand the earth on to the next generation in as good a shape as possible...
...internships at the investment bank, the deadline is next March 15. If the budding bankers of Harvard submit their CVs to UBS, they will be adding manpower to a bank that—indirectly—is complicit in one of the most horrific humanitarian crisis on the planet. But Harvard students have another option: we can tell UBS that by underwriting genocide, UBS will undermine its own recruitment efforts...
...that don't restrict speed, is meeting with serious resistance. Under the proposal, approved by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) at a convention this weekend, Germans would be required to keep to within a 130 kph (about 80 mph) on the regional highways in order to save the planet - "a fast and unbureaucratic path to climate protection," according to a statement from the party...
...evening, it was the audience who was lifting their hands in applause for the orchestra’s outstanding performance of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67” and Holst’s “The Planets.” The evening began with the familiar sound of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5,” which first premiered in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808—the very same year that the HRO’s first incarnation...
...before the fires had even begun to die down. While environmental scientists are careful not to blame the droughts or heat waves of any one season on climate change, the overwhelming majority of climate models point to more of these extreme conditions in the already dry Southwest as the planet warms. A study led by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and published in Science last year found that as temperatures increased in the West, which is now 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 1 degree Celsius) warmer than it was in 1987, so did the length...