By any material measure, and relative to the aspirations of most people, she was one of the most privileged human beings on the planet.
At the most basic level, each human body on the planet contains more than 60% water.
He cited the statistic that there are more devices connected to the Internet today than there are human beings on the planet.
Recognition was given to the fact that human activity had driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth-system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.
They specifically point to the cumulative impact of x billions of human beings on the planet.
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Alternatively, it could be argued that the Anthropocene has not yet arrived because human impacts on the planet are destined to be even greater 50 or a hundred years from now.
"This will be one step in the long road to human expansion off of the planet into low-Earth orbit and beyond, " NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, one of Burbank's crewmates aboard the station, said Friday.
Creating organic life forms as tools, the Old Ones fashioned every creature on the planet, including human beings.
The season begins with a supernatural occurrence that halts human death on the entire planet.
The Mars Society is a privately funded organization dedicated to promoting human exploration of the Red Planet, and the recent find will give the society's president Dr Robert Zubrin and his team more hope for a manned mission.
This may be achieved by increasing the surface reflectivity of the planet, for example by brightening human structures, planting crops with a higher albedo, or covering deserts with reflective material.
In absolute terms the UK consumer is one of the richest human beings to ever walk the face of the planet.
The challenge of the Anthropocene is to use human ingenuity to set things up so that the planet can accomplish its 21st-century task.
Not For Sale, based in the Bay Area, fights human trafficking and modern-day slavery around the planet through its work in mainstream supply chains.
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What a world that would be: wireless pipes filled with bits lacing the planet, connecting every human to hundreds of thousands of supercomputing data-centers, with Apple at the epicenter.
There will be enormous public outrage, but insufficient, as is the case presently, to halt the bulk of human indifferences to the plight of Holocaust-like conditions sweeping across the planet for cows, turkeys, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, geese, and vast numbers of equines, dogs and cats.
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Who is to say that human action might not tip the planet into new instability?
He believes the current warming trend is the result of natural variability, where a planet goes through phases of warming and cooling and the human contribution to it is minimal.
Ants are featured on BBC Radio 4 in Animal Magic, a week-long series exploring the sometimes bizarre relationships between human beings and some of the most neglected and despised creatures on the planet.
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Because they are persuaded that their theories of government are the more correct ones and that the planet has not yet imposed limitations that cannot be overcome by human nature, conservatives argue that the political system itself must be imperfect.
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One argument against the idea that a new human-dominated epoch has recently begun is that humans have been changing the planet for a long time already, indeed practically since the start of the Holocene.
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Melting glaciers, hotter summers and migrations of plants, animals and even deadly microbes have convinced virtually every climate scientist on earth that human activity has indeed started to warm the planet.
D. level climate scientists that work at Columbia University's Earth Institute and even if you do not understand the physics of climate change or the computer models predicting global warming, common sense alone might lead you to think that human beings and their machines are making the planet warmer.
The direct results of human activities on the ocean and through climate change are causing the blue part of this blue planet to warm, rise, and lose oxygen.
An action-adventure journey of self-discovery, AVATAR dramatically demonstrates how human invasion almost destroys the balance of life on the planet of Pandora.
One pair of the nine on board has sharper visual acuity than the human eye - the resulting images will have more than three times the resolution of anything yet seen on the planet.
Human relationships are just about the least predictable thing on the planet.
And most exciting to the young space geek, such a reactor could power a spaceship to a distant planet and then be the power source for a human base at the destination, he said.
Following up on clues provided by previous missions, the newest rover will seek answers to questions about climate, geology, human exploration and of course, whether or not the Red Planet could have once hosted life.
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