Another French encyclopedia holds that the German temperament generally can be described as the deep and diverse action of romanticism on German musicians, and that there is only one true representative of Romanticism in French music, Hector Berlioz, while in Italy, the sole great name of musical Romanticism is Giuseppe Verdi, a sort of [Victor] Hugo of opera, gifted with a real genius for dramatic effect.
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent. Tuesday 23 August 2011 17.00 EDT First published on Tuesday 23 August 2011 17.00 EDT. Humans share the planet with as many as 8.7 million different forms of life, according to what is being billed as the most accurate estimate yet of life on Earth.
It's a tough question, but we now have the best answer yet. Last year researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia released the most rigorous estimate yet of how many species live on our planet: 8.7 million, not counting bacteria. Nearly 6.5 million of these species live on land versus 2.2 million in the ocean, according to the analysis. âHumanity has committed itself to saving species from extinction, but until now we have not had a good idea of even how many there are,â says coauthor Boris Worm, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie.