Sentences with phrase «by people around the planet»

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We are a growing network of people working together to rebalance the planet by building strong forests and healthy communities around the world.

We would be able to protect millions if not billions of people around the planet who have been ravaged not just by the drug war, crimes and the vicious violence but also by terrorist groups funded largely by this trade who continue to maim and kill around the planet too.»

As you can imagine, there's a lot of demand for this kind of person, given that our whole society seems centered around financial worth — we're all reliant on the stock market for our retirement, cures to diseases only happen if they increase shareholder value, and the latest murder has been replaced by the latest merger on the front page of every major newspaper on the planet.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

People would see a magnet move a piece of metal, or a moon trapped in orbit around a planet, or a man in a restaurant levitate a saltshaker just by looking at it, and they would wonder how it was possible.

Malaria is caused by a handful of species of parasites in the genus Plasmodium through the bite of mosquitos and remains a widespread vector - borne infectious disease, sickening almost half a billion people every year around the planet.

Birthrates are falling around the world; by the end of the century the number of people on the planet may top out and, in an unprecedented reversal, start to decline.

Looking around, a bewildered brother from another planet might have concluded that this one was populated solely by educated, well - to - do white people who routinely leave their businesses and families to follow art wherever it lands.

The ocean, with around 38,000 gigatons (Gt) of carbon (1 gigaton = 1 billion tons), contains 16 times as much carbon as the terrestrial biosphere, that is all plant and the underlying soils on our planet, and around 60 times as much as the pre-industrial atmosphere, i.e., at a time before people began to drastically alter the atmospheric CO2 content by the increased burning of coal, oil and gas.

Around 40 % of the people on the planet live by the sea.

We are a growing network of people working together to rebalance the planet by building strong forests and healthy communities around the world.

The good people at Cooler Planet have come up with a neat way to visualize the progress solar energy has made in California over the past decade - a Google Maps mash - up with data provided by the California Energy Commission (lots of great stats to play around with).