He added that Earth's biosphere depends heavily on plants for food and oxygen.

他补充说，地球生物圈严重依赖植物来获取食物和氧气。

Mosquito City's buzzing, whining biospheres mimic local field conditions, even down to banana plants and goats.

蚊子城市抱怨“生物圈”模拟当地野外条件的嗡嗡声甚至穿透至香蕉树和山羊群。

Humans, now the dominant species, will either lead the biosphere towards a flourishing future or to catastrophe.

人类——现在处于主导地位的物种，要么引领生物圈走向繁荣的未来，要么走向灾难。

With over 21 billion broiler chickens in existence, human production of the species has fundamentally reconfigured Earth's biosphere, researchers say.

研究人员称，人类生产的210亿只肉鸡从根本上改变了地球生物圈的结构。

The uncomfortable and inconvenient truth is that the physical resources of the biosphere are finite.

生物圈内的物质资源是有限的。

Never before has a single species determined the future of the entire biosphere.

以前从来没有一个物种能够决定整个生物圈的未来。

Could humanity stop its destructive ways and restore balance to its relationship to its biosphere?

人类真的能停止破坏性的行为，重塑与生物圈的平衡关系吗？

It was generalized from the article that water is important in the development of biosphere.

文章归纳出水在生物圈的发展中起着重要作用的观点。

The destruction of the biosphere will also intensify the warming and acidification of the Earth's oceans.

对生物圈的破坏也将加剧地球海洋的变暖和酸化。

The study drew on recent evidence from scientific studies of the Antarctic Ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere and biosphere.

这项研究利用了南极海洋、大气、冰冻圈和生物圈科学研究的最新证据。

The biosphere's director has only ten staffers to monitor a hundred and thirty-eight thousand acres of land.

生物圈的主管只有十名工作人员，来监督十三万八千英亩的土地。

We need to have the biosphere properly explored so that we can understand and competently manage it.

我们需要对生物圈正确地进行探测，唯有如此，我们才能把握其秘密，并更好的加以保护。

In 1997, her grassroots organization helped the region achieve biosphere reserve status protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of land.

1997年，她的生态小组帮助该地区建立了生物圈保护区，保护了近40万公顷土地。

But crucially, I will look for all the molecules that can together paint a holistic picture of a biosphere.

此外至关重要的是，我会继续寻找所有可以一起描绘出生物圈整体风貌的分子。

Microbes have dominated our planet's biosphere for most of Earth's history.

在地球历史的大部分时间里，微生物一直主宰着我们星球的生物圈。

The broiler chicken, Bennett says, is now a symbol of how the biosphere is unrecognizable from its pre-human state.

贝内特说，这只肉用鸡现在是生物圈从其原始人类状态无法识别的一个象征。

Crucially, the people of that time had to arrange to pay themselves to do the things necessary to heal the biosphere.

关键的是，那时候的人还需要花费资金去做修复生物圈的必要工作。

At MIT, I develop the tools to try to decipher these potential alien biospheres.

在麻省理工学院，我开发了一些工具，想要破译这些潜在的外星生物圈。

Decades from now, the restoration of extinct species could become a vital part of restoring the Earth's biosphere.

几十年后，灭绝物种的恢复可能成为恢复地球生物圈的重要组成部分。

An army of nanobots, tiny self-replicating robots, could destroy the biosphere.

-纳米机器人大军，微型自我复制机器人，可以摧毁生物圈。