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.
Science has identified some 2 million species of plants, animals and microbes on Earth, but scientists estimated there are millions more left to discover, and new species are constantly discovered and described.