• The International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) of UNESCO and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) are leading this Mathematics of Planet Earth Day and the international exhibition which is an important component of the year of scientific and outreach activities, Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013), under the patronage of UNESCO.

    UNESCO: Mathematics of Planet Earth Day

  • Just as Mars -- a desert planet -- gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

    CNN: Commentary: Let's aim for Mars

  • DVDs top sellers included Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

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  • This is the theory that life is not merely a surface scum which clings to the outside of planet Earth, but that living things, in the form of so-called extremophile bacteria which can tolerate infernal heat, penetrate several kilometres into the planet's interior.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • Plainly, Asia and the rest of the world could be facing a major struggle to ensure that the impoverished of Planet Earth wouldn't be written off by a group of American experts, no matter how brilliant and well-meaning they may be.

    CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek | Intelligence | The Week Ahead

  • In short, I want to do something about the environment, because when I see the documentary of the "Planet Earth" by BBC, or the "Inconvenient Truth" by your former vice-president Al Gore, I was so touched.

    NPR: Chengdu Youths Discuss Life in China

  • It started with Rachel Carson's popular 1962 book on the dangers of pesticides, "Silent Spring, " and the eye on the planet increased with a photo of the Earth taken from Apollo 8 as it orbited near the moon in 1968.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • They travel across the kingdom, reuniting with friends, family and places long forgotten, discovering the true nature of the planet we call Earth.

    FORBES: Some Ideas for Replacing 'Harry Potter'

  • IPv6 actually makes the issue of Internet security that much worse, because IP addresses are the true root of identity and we just added a staggering number of them more addresses than the number of grains of sand on the entire planet Earth.

    FORBES: Authenticate or Die

  • The Mathematics of Planet Earth Day (MPE 2013) will take place at UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris on 5 March 2013.

    UNESCO: Mathematics of Planet Earth Day

  • Apple ( AAPL) is in this model, doing just fine trading in the orbit of Planet Earth worth about a half a trillion dollars.

    FORBES: From Apple To Amazon: Are The Markets Right?

  • Beyond the UNESCO Mathematics of Planet Earth Day on 5 March 2013, the MPE Exhibition will be displayed until 8 March 2013 at UNESCO Miollis Premises.

    UNESCO: Mathematics of Planet Earth Day

  • By the time passengers step off at the last stop, chances are that their train will have clanked and jolted its way round a fifth of the circumference of planet Earth.

    BBC: Five unforgettable rail journeys

  • "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.

    MSN: Space station's private hookup delayed till March

  • This holistic view of the planet he named Gaia after the Greek goddess of the Earth on the suggestion of his neighbor at the time in the English county of Wiltshire, William Golding, the author Lord of the Flies.

    CNN: Gaia straits: Planetary doctor says condition terminal

  • On the plus side, the ability to directly detect light from a planet closer to the size of Earth than a Jupiter-sized gas giant is a positive step forward in our ability to learn more about planets that might be habitable.

    FORBES: NASA Detects The Light Of A 'Super-Earth'

  • The results suggest that 17% of stars host a planet up to 1.25 times the size of the Earth, in close orbits lasting just 85 days or fewer - much like the planet Mercury.

    BBC: Kepler telescope: Earth-sized planets 'number 17bn'

  • Almost two-thirds of the stars likely host a planet measuring about five times Earth's mass, and half of them harbor a planet about the mass of Neptune.

    WSJ: Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate

  • "Since the population of our planet keeps growing, and the amount of land on this Earth is limited, a more efficient, and more sustainable system of food production is needed, " Oonincx said in a statement.

    MSN: Mealworms: They're not just for breakfast anymore...

  • They estimate that at least a third of the planet's mass is diamond - the equivalent of three times Earth's mass.

    BBC: Oddballs: The strange worlds beyond our Solar System

  • It holds that the Moon formed from the debris kicked into orbit by the collision of a smaller proto-planet with the infant Earth.

    BBC: Moon formation: New spins put on old questions

  • Indians, once fixed in the American mind's eye as bands of howling savages bent on doing no good to John Wayne, are nowadays more often seen as the devoted children of Mother Earth, determined to preserve the planet for future generations.

    ECONOMIST: Indians versus greens

  • He has reported as the space vehicle Pathfinder arrived on Mars and beamed live video of the planet's surface back to earth.

    CNN: The View from Space

  • With VoIP audio and video services, email and the ease of Wi-Fi access worldwide, planet earth is really the new office.

    FORBES: 3 Ways To Take Advantage Of The Virtual Workforce

  • Its texture and chemistry set it apart from all previous objects picked up off the surface of Earth but known to originate on the Red Planet.

    BBC: Mars meteorite 'Black Beauty' is in a class of its own

  • But if we are going to go there, and dive deep into another Boston season of rage, I would like to take the controls of the Spaceship of Crazy, fly it briefly down to Planet Earth and remind Red Sox fans, so furious about this sub-.500 campaign, that they still don't have a lot to complain about.

    WSJ: The Zombie Red Sox Trudge On - Jason Gay

  • "Although the elephants and the humpback whales and polar bears are the animal stars, the other big star of the movie is the earth -- the planet itself, " said Fothergill.

    CNN: 'Earth' takes viewers on 'breathtaking' global journey

  • As we know, change has been the one constant of existence on planet Earth.

    FORBES: How Are You Managing The Velocity Of Change?

  • By this standard, the planet Earth has a value of one.

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