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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...
...long had a commitment to covering environmental issues. The Environment section of the magazine was first created back in 1969 - long before the term global warming even existed. We published our first cover on that subject in 1987, and - in a break with tradition - named Endangered Earth our Planet of the Year in 1988. Our latest entry in this distinguished line of journalism was TIME International's double issue last month on Heroes of the Environment. To mark that issue, I was delighted to join my TIME colleagues and more than 400 distinguished guests, including TIME Warner Chairman...
...memorable evening. In the Great Hall of the Royal Courts - one of the finest Gothic Revival spaces in the world - the crowd met no less than 16 of our heroes. Some were locals, like David Attenborough, the legendary documentary filmmaker whose most recent series, Planet Earth, has taken his ability to reveal the secrets of nature to unparalleled heights. Others came from far away, such as Hammer Simwinga, a Zambian agronomist who has developed local businesses so that villagers do not have to resort to poaching, and Tommy Remengesau Jr., the President of the Pacific Island nation of Palau...
...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...