| 单词 | biosphere |
| 例句 | The emergence of aids, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The aids virus and other emerging viruses are surviving the wreck of the tropical biosphere because they can mutate faster than any changes taking place in their ecosystems. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the biosphere does not “like” the idea of five billion humans. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It might turn out that the same tendency underlies the joining of organisms into communities, communities into ecosystems, and ecosystems into the biosphere. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The minivan has become a biosphere—give us gas, and we can keep going forever. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We have access to all the information of the biosphere, arriving as elementary units in the stream of solar photons. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When viruses come out of an ecosystem, they tend to spread in waves through the human population, like echoes from the dying biosphere. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our increasing use of land, for agriculture, cities, roads, mining – as well as all the pollution we were creating – had started to modify our biosphere. Humans – the real threat to life on Earth 2013-06-29T23:05:50Z The rich, fragrant soil of a greenhouse in deep winter turns it into a biosphere where spring has been captured and held. The healing powers of the earth 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z A key point to note is that scientists – although describing the inhabitants of the shadow biosphere as weird – still assume they will be carbon-based entities. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z Louw declares much modern winemaking to be "just a cover-up for bad farming," and plans his vineyards as self-sustaining biospheres of vines, wheat and livestock. Discovering South Africa's Rebel Wineland 2010-11-19T14:20:00Z These researchers believe life may exist in more than one form on Earth: standard life – like ours – and "weird life", as they term the conjectured inhabitants of the shadow biosphere. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z We are now transfixed by its final, showy stage of life, but its real magic lies in its long and mysterious time in the hidden biosphere beneath our feet. Periodical cicadas are an evolutionary marvel. Enjoy the show. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z We are multiplying to the point where our needs and our wastes outweigh the capacities of the biosphere to produce and absorb them. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z But Mr. Letterman is leaving a late-night biosphere very different from the one he helped thrive. David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Lowenfels shreds autumn leaves on his lawn and lets the biosphere use them over the winter. The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z For Greenblatt, it's tempting to see the TV world in ecological terms, where any network on the brink of extinction is a threat to the entire biosphere, and where any growth is good for all. NBC's Greenblatt rebuilds network long in disarray 2013-01-04T14:02:13Z Ways need to be found to determine whether or not the shadow biosphere exists, says Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z It is part of a project by Piano – who is Genoese – to revive a derelict waterfront by restoring old buildings and adding his own, which also include a biosphere and an octopus-like branching viewing tower. Why Renzo Piano's Shard is out of tune with London's historical heart 2012-08-09T11:46:06Z Salford's biosphere hasn't yet bubbled up quite as much as this one at Montreal. Salford Spring to see fruit and veg sprout from the industrial past 2013-03-01T06:45:40Z These computer-modified pictures collage nature imagery with renderings of imaginary mini-robots that observe damage to the biosphere and devise strategies to repair it. Review | In the galleries: Artists create a multi-work homage to a teacher and a comrade 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Living under biosphere conditions was a challenge at the best of times. Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z On this side of the world, St. Mary’s, on St. Kitts and Nevis, with its cloud forests, mangroves and coral reefs, is one of the first biosphere reserves in the Caribbean. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z “What one saw was magnificent, but it was what one didn’t see – no humans, no environmental degradation. It was like an idealised biosphere on another planet.” The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Lambert dissects and punctures, suggesting the fragility of human domesticity and the biosphere that sustains it. Review | In the galleries: Noelle K. Tan’s photos develop interest with obscurity 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z When you’re eight years old, social justice is not really entering into your biosphere. Peter Dinklage Is Still Punk Rock 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z The human biosphere, by contrast, is a lot messier. Bee enthusiasts of all stripes flock to Washington amid pollinator concerns 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Mérida is also a good jumping-off point for the trip’s most stunning sites: the biosphere reserve at Celestun, and Uxmal, a Mayan mecca. Spring-break alternative: A road trip across Yucatán Peninsula 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Too often, we take for granted what their preface calls the “thin and lovely membrane” that is our biosphere. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z A second mission went into the biosphere in March 1994, and looked to be faring better. Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Although some species are pests or nurture pests such as aphids, ants with their highly organized colonies are essential members of the soil biosphere. The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Even so, just enough detail came through to encourage a look beneath the hypnotic breaking of waves and into the startling musical biosphere underneath. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The entire 270-square-mile island is a Unesco biosphere reserve, a designation issued in 1993 for the rich flora and fauna that thrive in Minorca’s forests, gorges, wetlands, salt marshes and hillsides. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z The talk, given in Vancouver last December, is a dire warning delivered in a reasonable, friendly voice about the imminent destruction of the biosphere that sustains humankind. | 'Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie': ?Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie? - Review 2011-12-02T00:41:08Z In other words, the shadow biosphere, if it exists, will almost certainly be inhabited by carbon life, albeit of an alien variety. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z In the nippy Atlantic Ocean a four-hour flight from the United States, the subtropical volcanic islands of the Azores, complete with Unesco World Heritage sites and biospheres, await discovery. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Unesco designated the entire island a biosphere reserve, and at times it feels uninhabited. The 52 Places Traveler: São Tomé and Príncipe, Where Nature has the Upper Hand 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z There is only one planet, biosphere, and Anthropocene epoch, and we must err on the side of caution! From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Now, Francis thinks, “there was clearly no need for a war to lay waste to the biosphere; all that was needed was business as usual.” Edward St. Aubyn Wraps Serious Thoughts About Science in an Entertaining Package 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z He began to see his customers, he said, as “individual biospheres that I could manipulate with my drinks.” The Sorcerer of Shaken and Stirred 2011-03-16T05:31:02Z Focus will bring together contemporary works of more than 35 galleries; this year’s theme centers on post-pandemic rebirth and the idea of art as a biosphere. Mad May: 10 Art Fairs in NYC 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z As in other such anthropomorphic exercises, it's not the diversity of the biosphere that brute multiformity celebrates, but the variegation of human personality. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z The idea of the shadow biosphere is also controversial and is challenged by several other scientists. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z But an alternative biosphere to our own would be more than a mere scientific curiosity: it is of crucial importance, for its existence would greatly boost expectations of finding life elsewhere in the cosmos. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z Like any rational person, I enter even the most posh lodgings aware of the limits of room spray, alert to the fact that I am in a biosphere rich in other people’s DNA. My Life in Hotels 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z In other words, keep the biosphere closed and retain the purity of the experiment, no matter the cost. Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z The intent is to create a biosphere for soil microorganisms now known to be key to the vitality of trees. After a winter restoration, the famed Hornbeam Ellipse is almost back 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “Trust me,” he says, with evangelical fervour, “the biosphere is worth it. You’ll like our next homestay host, Henry. It’s deep in the countryside – real Mexico!” Magical mystery tour: a road trip through Mexico 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z It’s a tidy little biosphere, one that runs on tweeness of its own excreting. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Cleland, a philosopher based at the university's astrobiology centre, calls this ethereal dimension the shadow biosphere. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z A global rise in average temperature of 4C or more by the end of this century, which many scientists now consider quite likely, will lead to a disruption of the biosphere. Caspar Henderson: rereading The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges 2012-11-23T22:55:06Z And for two bored girls living in North Carolina, AOL was a crack in the biosphere of our hometown, a window to another world, and we made a run for it. My “Ghost World” years: Confessions of a teenage AOL catfisher 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z There is plenty of room for a shadow biosphere. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z The awareness of this biosphere should change the way gardeners think about cultivating plants and heighten everyone’s understanding of the natural world. The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z With the new biosphere designation, the Maldives hope to continue a tradition of sustainability focused on the islands’ extensive coral reef system. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z The biosphere designation enhanced the feeling of protectiveness. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z What, if anything, is being done to protect the animals in this diverse biosphere and the environment? In the stunning yet grim "The Last Ice," melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z But the air inside this literary biosphere is not especially pleasant to breathe. Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z Our message is simple: we encourage people to stop procreating so the biosphere might return to its former glory, and everyone already here will be able to live life more abundantly. Experience: I campaign for the extinction of the human race 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Lowenfels says it’s also time for gardeners to adopt practices that nurture the soil biosphere. The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z That is why unexplained phenomena like desert varnish are important, she says, because they might provide us with clues about the shadow biosphere. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z Both the casual birdwatcher and the experienced birder will find much joy in its national parks and biosphere reserves, which are lovingly cared for by devoted naturalists, biologists, and concerned citizens, often with scarce resources. A birding adventure in Cuba 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But Robinson, whose novel, “The Ministry for the Future,” lays out a path for humanity that narrowly averts a biosphere collapse, sounded a note of cautious optimism. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Each of these is eroding the Earth’s ability to support a resilient biosphere. Restoring the Planet Will Need More than a Climate Price Tag 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z "The results provide a great window into a changing biosphere billions of years ago." Window to the past: New microfossils suggest earlier rise in complex life 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z We marveled at our increasingly rare status in the biosphere. I was a NOVID — until I wasn’t | Carla Hall 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Each features significant changes as a complex ocean biosphere diversified, forests proliferated and terrestrial biospheres flourished, influencing the mix of oxygen and other gasses in the atmosphere. 'Jurassic worlds' might be easier to spot than modern Earth 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z A nearby explosion has the potential to severely disrupt the Earth's biosphere and cause a mass extinction similar to the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Exploding stars 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z These include land system change, freshwater change, climate change, biosphere integrity, the flows of biological and geological chemicals and novel entities like plastics, pesticides and industrial chemicals. Earth's salt cycle is swinging out of balance, posing yet another “existential threat," study finds 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z “New solutions that are neutral for farmers but helpful for biodiversity in the long term will create a more resilient biosphere for all of us,” she said. Birds nesting in agricultural lands more vulnerable to extreme heat, study finds 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z In his 1895 novel "The Time Machine," for example, the lonely protagonist travels into the far future to discover a cold, dark planet stripped of the biosphere it once sustained. We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z "We'll need to tweak our method to match SAM's protocols, but it's possible that we already have data in hand to determine if there are molecules on Mars from an organic Martian biosphere." Did life exist on Mars? Other planets? With AI's help, we may know soon 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z It could weaken the stratospheric ozone layer that protects us and Earth's biosphere from ultraviolet radiation. It’s Time to Engineer the Sky 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The boundaries include biosphere integrity, freshwater changes and climate change. Earth just had its warmest August — and summer — on record, spurring dire warnings 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Richardson and her colleagues evaluated biosphere integrity on two fronts: genetic diversity and what they call “functional integrity.” Humans Have Crossed 6 of 9 ‘Planetary Boundaries’ 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z As we release more carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, nearly all the additional heat energy that gets trapped in our biosphere is absorbed by our oceans, with devastating consequences. Our Oceans Are Threatened by Climate Disruption. They Could Also Provide Climate Solutions 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z At a time when instruction in biology can be increasingly reductive and ahistorical, paleontologists teach us the astonishing breadth of past and present life on Earth and the long history that led to today’s biosphere. Paleontology Is Far More Than New Fossil Discoveries 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly twice that of all the world’s oceans. Cells Discovered Making ‘Dark Oxygen’ Underground 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z “This paper points us to how nuclear colonialism is not just a human history,” Martin says, “but it has and continues to impact the whole biosphere.” Turtle Shells Record Nuclear History 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z In 1989, Yasuni was designated a world biosphere reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, also known as UNESCO. Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon in historic decision 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z "It's a reminder that there's still so much to learn about our wild world - and that humans are one small part of an impossibly vast biosphere," Harrison Ford has a new Peruvian snake species named after him 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Knowing this history is critical to our response to just such challenges: climate change, ocean acidification, mass extinctions and other perils, mainly human-made, facing the biosphere and humanity. Paleontology Is Far More Than New Fossil Discoveries 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The finding fills a crucial gap in our understanding of how the huge subterranean biosphere has evolved, and how dismutation contributes to the cycle of compounds moving through the global environment. Cells Discovered Making ‘Dark Oxygen’ Underground 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The biosphere can't go extinct; it can't die, but we can alter it to the point that we can no longer survive. Are humans a cancer on the planet? A physician argues that civilization is truly carcinogenic 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Anything other than a nonzero prospect of hauling viable extraterrestrial organisms to Earth and introducing them to our biosphere raises the specter of what “planetary protection” specialists call “backward contamination.” This Is How the First-Ever U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Will Unfold 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z At the biosphere, I wonder which section of glassed-in trees I need to go through to get to the talk about how cave diving is like living on the moon. I Survived a Weekend at Biosphere 2 Pretending to Be in Space 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The search for the causes of past mass extinctions sparked pioneering studies from across the scientific spectrum, focusing on potential future threats to the biosphere and humanity. Paleontology Is Far More Than New Fossil Discoveries 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The players are the two inhabitants of a biosphere sealed off from the toxic outside world, a self-sustaining geodesic dome, with a hydroponic garden as a food source. Review: High-concept, lo-fi 'Biosphere' doesn't know where to take its interesting premise 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z And cancer does not stop until the host organism has ceased to function, which for our purposes is the biosphere. Are humans a cancer on the planet? A physician argues that civilization is truly carcinogenic 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z They are living in the confines of a lone biosphere, the vast world around them shrouded in darkness, and will have to find a way to survive with dwindling resources. Seattle film producer Mel Eslyn on giving life to feature debut ‘Biosphere’ 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Part of the challenge is raising awareness of fungal life and the many vital roles they play in the biosphere, of course. Fungal Networks Are Often Hidden and Overlooked. But They Can Help Save Us. 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z And just like the manufacture and use of your power-hungry PC or game console, that biosphere reworks the planet, making it a Gaian machine of water and oxygen, nitrogen and carbon. To Find Life in the Universe, Find the Computation 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z It caused large fires, for example, in the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve southwest of Kherson, one of the largest and most important biosphere reserves in the country. Ukrainian Dam Collapse Triggers ‘Ecological Disaster’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine the biosphere at risk from alien organisms, but the chances are not zero. Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The country’s first biosphere reserve would encompass the planned sites for the Stung Treng and Sambor dams—and perhaps thwart their construction. World’s largest freshwater fish draws attention to delicate ecosystem 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Cabrol, who was not involved in the study, says there is a “dire need” for research on how fast Earth's biospheres are morphing because of climate change. Dried-Up Lagoon Is ‘Time Analog’ for Martian Life 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z The third box is labeled “the biosphere” and shows a drawing of planet Earth. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Communities exist within ecosystems which exist in the biosphere. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z The only system known to exhibit this is Earth’s biosphere—an ongoing, multibillion-year evolutionary explosion of biodiversity that ultimately traces back to simple, single-celled ancestral organisms. Life Evolves. Can Attempts to Create ‘Artificial Life’ Evolve, Too? 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z "It is conceivable that these 'Snowball Earth' events could have driven major extinctions, but apparently life, including complex eukaryotic organisms, managed to survive, attesting to the resilience of the biosphere." Study explains how primordial life survived on 'Snowball Earth' 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The population has declined steadily over the past 25 years, mostly because of a huge loss of habitat in the biosphere reserve. Monarch butterflies lose sanctuary in Mexico as climate changes 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z The key point to remember is that protists have a wide impact on the ecosystem as well at the biosphere as well. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, mineral nutrients are cycled, either rapidly or slowly, through the entire biosphere between the biotic and abiotic world and from one living organism to another. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Its muddled progression is a striking parallel to the eons-spanning evolutionary struggles that have so profoundly shaped Earth’s biosphere. Life Evolves. Can Attempts to Create ‘Artificial Life’ Evolve, Too? 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “We are already seeing detrimental impacts on the biosphere and the economy due to climate change, and we should expect that they’re only going to get worse.” Old Bomber Plane Will Sniff the Sky for Geoengineering Particles 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The biosphere reserve also serves as the main freshwater source for 5 million people in Mexico City. Monarch butterflies lose sanctuary in Mexico as climate changes 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Communities exist within ecosystems, which exist in the biosphere. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The researchers turned to so-called carbon box models, which consist of systems of differential equations dictating how carbon diffuses through the atmosphere, the biosphere, the oceans and other reservoirs on Earth. Mystery of Ancient Space Superstorms Deepens 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z He calmly rejects criticism that his vision would despoil the biosphere. Jaguars, narcos, illegal loggers: One man's battle to save a Guatemalan jungle and Maya ruins 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z While often perceived as pests, creepy, or just a downright nuisance, insects play a critical role in the biosphere. More than 75% of global insect species not adequately protected 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z “To fail the Amazon is to fail the biosphere, and we fail to act at our own peril.” One Third of the Amazon Has Been Degraded by Human Activities 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Indeed, soil holds roughly three-quarters of the organic carbon in Earth’s biosphere. The New Era of Biofuels Raises Environmental Concerns 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z But, reimagined for the 21st century, being “multiplanetary” could become less about pursuing some dubious extraterrestrial Manifest Destiny and more about finding bold ways to reduce our crushing collective weight on the biosphere. Keep Looking Up 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z “It takes it from where? From the biosphere. And as we consume more, we throw out more waste. Where do we throw it? Back to the biosphere. That’s depletion, and that’s pollution.” Herman Daly, professor who introduced ecology to economics, dies at 84 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Yet another foundational concept was that the economy does not exist apart from the Earth’s biosphere but within it, and that its scale is limited by its reliance on finite natural resources. Herman Daly, 84, Who Challenged the Economic Gospel of Growth, Dies 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Giammattei added that damage was expected in Guatemala's Maya biosphere reserve, a stretch of protected rainforest home to rich fauna and major archeological sites. Hurricane Lisa hits Belize near main port, uprooting trees 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z He also told the Assembly that Brazil was a “reference for the world” in the protection of the biosphere. The winner of the election will likely play a major role in deciding the fate of the Amazon rainforest. 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z A new study considering these mysteries counterintuitively finds that a plausible Martian biosphere could’ve been instrumental for tipping the planet into its presently inhospitable state. Life on Mars May Have Been Its Own Worst Enemy 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Maine’s messy dilemma reflects how climate change is transforming biospheres the world over by expanding the northward range of parasites. As Maine’s winters shorten, tiny ticks threaten state’s mighty moose 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “They challenge us to rethink the way a biosphere and its planet interact.” Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The United Nations has recognized these islands as an international biosphere reserve. Opinion | We need to talk about development of coastal land 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Over time, complex organisms evolved from much simpler ancestors, representing a large decrease in entropy of the Earth's biosphere. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z But that buried biosphere would have ultimately retreated deeper into the planet, perhaps to its doom, driven by freezing temperatures of its own making. Life on Mars May Have Been Its Own Worst Enemy 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Approximately half the energy that flows through the Earth’s biosphere is captured by phytoplankton, photosynthetic microscopic organisms in the surface waters of the oceans. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z “Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere? he said. “If so, where?” Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Beyond our solar system are stars that host their own planets, some of which might be similar to Earth in the ability to support liquid water—and a thriving biosphere—at the planet’s surface. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The arguments for why ASI could devastate the biosphere and destroy humanity, which are primarily philosophical, are complicated, with many moving parts. Would "artificial superintelligence" lead to the end of life on Earth? It's not a stupid question 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z That could squash the Sun’s magnetic cocoon, to our biosphere’s detriment. ‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe mysterious region beyond our Solar System 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Despite its apparent vastness to an individual human, the biosphere occupies only a minute space when compared to the known universe. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z And two years ago, he said the biosphere - all systems of life on Earth - was on its last 1% of life. James Lovelock: Influential green thinker dies aged 103 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z What makes Earth “special” among the potentially habitable worlds in our solar system is that it has a photosynthetic biosphere. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Even more, the very same arguments for why an ASI could cause the extinction of our species also lead to the conclusion that it could obliterate the entire biosphere. Would "artificial superintelligence" lead to the end of life on Earth? It's not a stupid question 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z We are approaching a tipping point of 2 degrees Celsius when the biosphere will become so degraded nothing can save us. Dawn of the apocalypse: Existential crisis for our species is right here, right now 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Many abiotic forces influence where life can exist and the types of organisms found in different parts of the biosphere. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The cycles that carry carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus through the biosphere are vital for life. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z We need to understand that we might not be able to detect biospheres even if they exist. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z “It’s important for us to understand how this basic level of the biosphere ties into that.” They Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes: The Ocean Was Glowing. 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Our industrialized society dumps huge amounts of pollutants and toxic wastes into the earth’s biosphere without fully considering the consequences. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Thus, mineral nutrients are cycled, either rapidly or slowly, through the entire biosphere, from one living organism to another, and between the biotic and abiotic world. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Ecosystem diversity refers to the variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the biosphere. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Why is the simultaneous detection of methane and oxygen in an atmosphere a good indication of the existence of a biosphere on that planet? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Soil is a combination of air, water, minerals, and organic matter that forms at the transition between the biosphere and geosphere. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Minerals cycle through the biosphere between the biotic and abiotic components and from one organism to another. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Biodiversity describes the number and variety of organisms in the biosphere. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Species diversity is the number of different species in a particular area, or biosphere. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Why are we limited to finding life on planets orbiting other stars to situations where the biosphere has created planet-scale changes? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z First, the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and biosphere are linked. Toxic Slime Contributed to Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction—And It’s Making a Comeback 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z At the highest level of organization, the biosphere is the collection of all ecosystems, and it represents the zones of life on Earth. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Organisms, in turn, are grouped as populations, communities, ecosystems, and the biosphere. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The biosphere therefore includes humans and all other living things. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z But the abundant energy available in sunlight could support a larger and more productive biosphere, as well as some biochemical reactions not previously possible for life. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z We’re in a moment of extreme danger for the biosphere and humanity. Sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson on the Sierra and why humans might just ‘squeak by’ 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The health of the biosphere depends on understanding these cycles and how to protect the environment from irreversible damage. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z “That will allow us to both optimally protect Earth’s biosphere and humans while still making the best full use of the analyses of the Mars samples to answer the science questions,” Boston says. Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The biosphere is all living things on Earth. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth hosts such a biosphere: the composition of our atmosphere and the spectrum of light reflected from our planet differ considerably from what would be expected in the absence of life. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z If we wreck civilization and cause a mass extinction event, the biosphere will be fully reoccupied in a few million years by new species. Sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson on the Sierra and why humans might just ‘squeak by’ 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The process of photosynthesis is crucially important to the biosphere for the following reasons: Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z But one crucial aspect of the project remains troublingly unresolved: How exactly should the returned samples be handled and at what cost, given the potential risk of somehow contaminating Earth’s biosphere with imported Martian bugs? Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The biosphere includes all living organisms and the environments they live in. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z This geologic era derives from the relentless expansion of humankind's destructive activities on Earth, impacting the atmosphere, oceans and wildlife to the point that they threaten the integrity of the biosphere. This Amazonian Indigenous Group Has Lessons in Sustainable Living for All of Us 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z “It’s a biosphere where everyone has their place. Without me taking their picture, they wouldn’t feel like the celebrities they are.” Ron Galella, paparazzi photographer of celebrities, dies at 91 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The area in question could be a habitat, a biome, or the entire biosphere. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z “This nitrogen flux is potentially a major component of the biosphere at the time,” says Roger Fu, a planetary scientist at Harvard University. Earth’s oldest living landscape spotted in South African rock cores 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The global climate system is powered and shaped by the total amount of solar energy retained in the biosphere as heat. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Perseverance is the tip of the spear in humanity’s grand quest to find traces of a relict Martian biosphere. What We Learned from the Perseverance Rover’s First Year on Mars 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Plus, get tips for maintaining the biosphere, or living organisms, that keep your garden healthy. Gardeners and plant lovers: 14 things to do in L.A. right now 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “Even though we’re looking at a potentially ancient process, the methane today could be from the same biosphere sustained till now.” Mars rover detects carbon signature that hints at past life source 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Wilson, who uncovered clues to human nature in the biosphere. Deaths in 2021: Headline names against the backdrop of pandemic 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z All living things on Earth form a system called the biosphere. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Think human impacts on biodiversity are limited to the biosphere? 15 Conservation Issues to Watch in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z "Our biosphere is really helping bail us out for the time being, but there is no guarantee those processes will continue," said Oliver Phillips, an ecologist at the United Kingdom’s University of Leeds. Over 100 global leaders pledge to end deforestation by 2030 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The report draws on information collected by a network that monitors the amount of greenhouse gases that remain in the atmosphere after some quantities are absorbed by oceans and the biosphere. UN: Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Networks of species perform the ecosystem services that support our living biosphere — forming the foundation of a healthy existence for humankind on planet Earth. Opinion | A woodpecker is officially declared extinct. Why should we care? 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Today’s fertilizer manufacturing and application has more than doubled the amount of biologically active nitrogen cycling through the biosphere, dramatically changing the natural nitrogen cycle. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z "Fungi are vital for ecosystem functioning, aiding in the decomposition and nutrient cycling within our biosphere," they added. Flora, fauna, and … funga? The case for a third "F" 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z By studying Phobos soil samples including material from Mars, scientists hope to learn about the evolution of the Martian biosphere, Usui said. Japan aims to bring back soil samples from Mars moon by 2029 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Melted, flowing material is a prerequisite for making planetary magnetic fields, which may themselves be necessary for shielding a planet’s biosphere from outbursts of damaging radiation from its host star. Massive Machines Are Bringing Giant Exoplanets Down to Earth 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Nor is it clear that it would be bad for civilization or the biosphere. What if American Democracy Fails the Climate Crisis? 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The biosphere includes all parts of Earth in which life exists, underground, on land, and in the water and air. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z As individuals, it’s easy to feel helpless to stop the destruction of the biosphere. Therapists Are Reckoning with Eco-anxiety 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z His hobby of creating complex biospheres of plants and ponds for crustaceans, reptiles, fish and microorganisms, Boles thought, demonstrated her son’s talents. UC explains admissions decisions in a record application year of much heartbreak, some joy 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Like sick building syndrome, we feared this could result in "sick biosphere syndrome." The inside story of Biosphere 2, a forgotten experiment to rethink human civilization 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z But for all that, we are still animals in the Earth’s biosphere. Review | Humans have rapidly remade the Earth — and imperiled its future 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Biological processes occur in the biosphere and are any activities done by organisms, such as photosynthesis. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z "These seagrass meadows are the champion of carbon sequestration for the biosphere," said Prof Carlos Duarte, of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Climate change: 'Forever plant' seagrass faces uncertain future 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Although it is fascinating how well the periodic darkening phenomenon they discussed could indeed fit into a picture of a surface biosphere on Mars – and remains perhaps a rather sobering lesson in overinterpreting limited data. Until Recently, People Accepted the 'Fact' of Aliens in the Solar System 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z The name was a nod to the idea that Planet Earth is our original, first biosphere; this was the second. The inside story of Biosphere 2, a forgotten experiment to rethink human civilization 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z "As a distinct biosphere, separate from the rest of the EU, such island-of-Ireland-specific rules for food and plant products would be justifiable," he states. Brexit: Can the Northern Ireland Protocol be tweaked? 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Water cycles among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere—sometimes outside the biosphere and sometimes in it. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we are to feed a world of 10 to 11 billion people healthy diets without destroying the biosphere, a shift to more plant-based diets will be an essential adjustment.” Column: Burgers are great. But make no mistake, they're killing the planet 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z “A lot of countries are relying on the biosphere to offset some of their emissions,” said lead study author Katharyn Duffy, a scientist at Northern Arizona University. Warming May Push Ecosystems to Release Carbon, Instead of Absorbing It 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z “The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms – including humanity – is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts.” More Republicans join rebellion against Trump as impeachment looms | First Thing 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z The adverse effects of climate change are much more severe than expected, and now threaten both the biosphere and humanity. The Climate Emergency: 2020 in Review 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Nitrogen-containing compounds, such as ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, are in the biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Slabs break, monster plumes of seafloor magma suddenly erupt—all with huge climatic repercussions for the thin biosphere clinging to life at the surface. Slowdown in plate tectonics may have led to Earth’s ice sheets 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z “We need to be very aware of the fragility of the ecosystem services—not just carbon sequestration, but a whole host of them that the biosphere provides,” she said. Warming May Push Ecosystems to Release Carbon, Instead of Absorbing It 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Plans for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne to be held in an 'F1 biosphere' are already under way. FIA confirms longest Formula 1 season 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The land biosphere over southwest China, by far the largest single region of uptake, represents a sink of about -0.35 petagrams per year, representing 31.5% of the Chinese land carbon sink. Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake underestimated 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z After the extinction of the dinosaurs and gradual recovery of Earth’s biosphere, there were millions of years of animal exchanges between North America and Asia. What Happened to South America’s Missing Mega-Mammals? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z And neatly manicured neighborhoods conceal a more complicated political biosphere. Moving the flip zone: Democrats march deeper into suburbia 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Now, however, hints of a possible Venusian biosphere are strengthening a surge of interest in our sister world. Is There Life on Venus? These Missions Could Find It 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z There was life here then, even an entire biosphere that did not survive in the oxygen-rich environment that later developed. Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The land biosphere over northeast China, the researchers say, is seasonal, so it takes up carbon during the growing season but emits carbon otherwise. Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake underestimated 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z But unless the origin of life on Earth involved a rare fluke, I expect evidence of a biosphere on an exoplanet within 20 years. How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Our global megasprawl and its unintended consequences — overpopulation, pollution, gene-altering chemicals, climate change, accelerated pandemics — could eventually have much the same effect on the planet and its biosphere as a stray asteroid once did. Perspective | How to cope in an anxious age: Try Hitchcock, Munch and Poe 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z In coming years, “We are going to see a broad acceptance of the importance of these microbes to the biosphere,” Malkin says. ‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z This virus has exposed and amplified existing societal inequities, as well as the effects of human encroachment on the Earth’s biosphere. The Ocean Carries ‘Memories’ of SARS-CoV-2 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z In a world that increasingly favors the opportunists and generalists of the biosphere, what will happen to specialists like the blue whale? Why Are Blue Whales So Gigantic? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z This idea, long one of the most prominent in origins-of-life research, posits that RNA formed the basis of Earth’s biosphere long before DNA and other molecules important to life emerged. The First Organism on Earth May Have Been a Genetic Hybrid 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z As we restructure Earth’s biosphere to suit our whims, we open hidden conduits between other animals’ microbiomes and our own. How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The biosphere contains areas designed for fire prevention and management. Chernobyl: US Forest Service helps reduce wildfire risk in contaminated zone 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Scientists estimate that more than 99 percent of the planet’s biosphere resides in the oceans. The Sea’s Weirdest Creatures, Now in ‘Staggering’ Detail 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z In recent months, a court blocked work from starting on stations next to villages inside the Calakmul biosphere in Campeche. Mexico’s president goes full-steam ahead with Mayan train 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z “The most fundamental problem is reducing the scale of the human enterprise, especially its consumptive demands on the biosphere,” Ehrlich said. Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The legacy of the biosphere is, fittingly, mostly as a strange time capsule. Review: An out-of-this-world experiment in ‘Spaceship Earth’ 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z One nestles a biosphere into global homeostasis, the other is only stable in one direction, and falls off a rolling cliff in the other. Self-Terminating Biospheres 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until the early 2000s, with the launch of an expedition devoted solely to exploring life in the deep biosphere, that scientists started to understand the biology of these deep-sea-dwelling microbes. These microbial communities have learned to live at Earth's most extreme reaches 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z The area has been designated by UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization, as an internationally protected biosphere reserve. Tribal nation condemns ‘desecration’ to build border wall 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Earth’s biosphere depends heavily on plants for food and oxygen. Billion-year-old Chinese seaweed is oldest green plant fossil 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z But scientists also worry about “backward contamination”—the notion that any Martian biota could contaminate Earth and put us or our biosphere in grave danger. Rocks, Rockets and Robots: The Plan to Bring Mars Down to Earth 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z That fear is compounded by climate change — a threat to the biosphere — and the deadly sand and dust storms that sweep both sides of the border. God, gas and heroin. Now, the fight's over water 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z He described human-driven global warming and its probable effects on the biosphere. Isaac Asimov: centenary of the great explainer 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Oliver reframes the self as a fleeting union of molecules, a target for manipulation by parasites, a cooperative co-creator who is also destroying the biosphere. Data judo, the interconnected self, and the dystopia in Silicon Valley: Books in brief 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z That was the scene in Mallacoota, a tourist town 260 miles east of Melbourne in the middle of a Unesco biosphere. Falling ash, skies of blood – and now Australia’s anger smoulders 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z We are doing what bacteria do, heating the climate system with our waste, while also driving mass extinction by destroying local biospheres and filling the liquid parts of our planet with plastics. What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “So our biosphere in the North is leakier than we thought because soils are remaining warm and respiring both carbon dioxide and methane.” The Arctic may have crossed key threshold, emitting billions of tons of carbon into the air, in a long-dreaded climate feedback 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Prising the human away from nature is perhaps the most egregious of all; it implies that we are self-contained, rather than dependent on a biosphere increasingly under threat. Lost in the house of tomorrow: Berlin’s newest museum 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z It’s also the ultimate event of sport fishing for hundreds who stalk the hulking marlin patrolling one of the richest biospheres on earth. In this fishing tournament, first place could mean a $1-million payday 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z If humans pose a unique threat to Earth, as some scholars fear, then it is the unprecedented rate of environmental change that carries the greatest risk for damage to the biosphere. Why Carbon? 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Basic quantitative reasoning confirms one of Klein’s central arguments — that the survival of a healthy biosphere on this finite planet is inconsistent with an economic system dependent on continuous growth. Review | An audacious plan to stop climate change: Remake the entire economy 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z How many biospheres produce creatures capable of communicating across space and time? Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The scheme, introduced in 1994, granted 12 communities concessions to manage 20% of the biosphere - amounting to just under one million acres. Tropical forest success story under threat in Guatemala 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Its four topics of focus will be solar energy and electricity, climate change, water resources and engineering the biosphere. Telescope windfall, genius grants and Arctic ice loss 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “The area given over for the dig is doubly safeguarded, as it lies within the Juan Fernández national park and was also designated a Unesco biosphere reserve in 1977,” she said. Chile under fire over treasure hunter's plan to unearth legendary pirate hoard 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “This is about an existential crisis for the biosphere and for humanity.” How Oceans Rise and Die on a Warming Planet 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Cal Tech said the donation would be used to study solar science, climate science, energy, biofuels, decomposable plastics, water and environmental resources, and ecology and biosphere engineering. Resnicks donate record $750 million for climate change research at Cal Tech 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z In the show, the company “unravels the mystery of the origin of life, explores the beauty and strength of human connection, and celebrates our orientation in the biosphere.” 6 dance performances to catch this fall in the Seattle area 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z It also seems that the vast microbial biosphere extends well into this domain. The Atmospheric Microbiome 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z This perspective is an end-member hypothesis for astrobiology, a paradigm shift that fundamentally changes our relationship to our planet, to our biosphere and to our universe. The Quantum of Life? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z This goal has been endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as necessary to prevent catastrophic impacts to the biosphere. Arlington’s path to zero emissions - The Washington Post 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z In his Aug. 25 Outlook essay, “Caring about tomorrow,” Jamil Zaki offered insights from social research into why some people care more than others about the biosphere’s future. Opinion | To fight climate change, appeal to logic, not emotion 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z But the North also views the DMZ as primarily a military zone, Moores adds, tending to see grand — and unilateral — South Korean proposals for biosphere reserves and peace parks there as potential “land grabs.” Wildlife thrives among the land mines along Korea’s DMZ. But for how long? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Her face showed alarm, and she mourned being a helpless witness to what looked like another potential step toward the downward spiral of our planet’s biosphere. Opinion | Why doom and gloom won’t help us fight climate change 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z “Carbon stored in the biosphere is at risk if we don’t simultaneously get energy, industry, and transport emissions in check.” Deforestation, Agriculture, and Diet Are Fuelling the Climate Crisis 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z For anyone outside economics that might seem bewildering, but the blase disregard of the economy being a wholly owned, and utterly dependent, subsidiary of the biosphere is perfectly symbolic. Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let's rethink it | Andrew Simms 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z I don’t believe we are continuing to ruin the biosphere because we are evil. Greta Thunberg: ‘They see us as a threat because we’re having an impact’ 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Along with isolating wastes from the biosphere, today’s landfills also capture organic gases, generated by decomposition, and generate electricity. Opinion | A practical solution to the plastics pollution crisis 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Each volume made its case more forcefully than the last, exploring what was known first as the Gaia hypothesis, then simply as Gaia, and the hazards facing either the biosphere or humanity. James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z It is rapidly converted to carbon dioxide, and filters into a host of carbon reservoirs in the biosphere and ocean. Radiocarbon revolution: the story of an isotope 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Even if they do not, bacteria most likely live in similar conditions across Earth’s vast underground biosphere, Weber argues. The Not So Dead Sea: Traces of Ancient Bacteria Found in the Lake's Sediments 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Others investigated the ways humans have scrambled the biosphere, removing species from their natural habitat and releasing them into new ones. The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Planets, meanwhile, are immensely complex economies of energy and matter that cycle between vast reservoirs in the oceans and atmosphere, the cryosphere, geosphere and biosphere. Life on Mars? Sorry Brian Cox, that’s still science fiction | Philip Ball 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z As long as we continue to tear through the biosphere, expect the losses to continue to mount. Climate Change and the New Age of Extinction 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z “Once you have an iron in that porphyrin ring, it’s used throughout the biosphere,” Hardison said. Icefish Study Adds Another Color to the Story of Blood 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Its interest in environmentalism is evident in its construction of three biospheres — multistory, glass-enclosed conservatories where employees can take their laptops and work or relax, surrounded by 40,000 plants. Amazon in Seattle: Economic godsend or self-centered behemoth? 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z And without any other biospheres to compare it to, there was no way to distinguish random flukes from significant patterns. The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “Given the different astrophysical context for these planets, we should not be surprised to find microbial biospheres promoting high levels of carbon monoxide,” the study's lead author, Edward Schwieterman, said in the statement. Poisonous gas could be a precursor to alien life 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Somewhere along the line, though, this became perfectly acceptable behavior inside the Fox News biosphere. Something is seriously wrong with Donald Trump: Let's stop kidding ourselves about that 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z That, in turn, could have set the stage for the Cambrian explosion, an event approximately 541 million years ago in which the biosphere suddenly experienced the greatest evolutionary expansion in the planet’s history. Ancient Earth's Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Such a crusade, as envisioned, would create jobs and economic development while at the same time safeguarding the biosphere. Opinion | A ‘Green New Deal’ sounds like pie in the sky. But we need it. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Allen and his team envisioned biospheres built to order. The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Some seimei felt driven to assist the biosphere of which they were now a part. An artificial life form carries the seeds of humanity to a new world 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z During a news conference on Wednesday, the project's leader, Liu Hanlong, said temperatures fell inside the biosphere on the far side of the Moon, the plants withered and eventually were unable to withstand the conditions. China's Moon plants are dead after freezing temperatures killed them 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The idea is for the plants to try and form a mini biosphere — an artificial, self-sustaining environment. Plant sprouts on the Moon for first time ever 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The crops will try to form a mini biosphere - an artificial, self-sustaining environment. China's cotton seeds sprout on Moon 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z By 1995, they hoped to put one in orbit, and perhaps eventually build biospheres on the moon and Mars. The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z If chickens really do symbolize the brave new world of our human-altered biosphere, how should we think about the future of our farms, our food and our feathered friends? Why your chicken wings mean we’ve entered a new epoch | Max Elder 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Evidence shows that greenhouse gas emissions are causing the Earth to warm 10 times faster than it should, and the ramifications of this are being felt, quite literally, throughout the entire biosphere. When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Xinhua said the probe took a small plant called arabidopsis, which will likely grow the first flower on the moon, albeit within a small, contained biosphere on the robot. Chinese lunar probe brings life to the far side of the moon 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z If the delicate cargo can be encouraged to germinate and hatch in the moon’s low gravity, they may form a complete biosphere — a tiny oasis of life on a cold and airless world. China lands spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a historic first 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z To Vernadsky, the biosphere was the self-sustaining ecological web of life that formed a skin on the planet. The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The lander also carries a minuscule biosphere developed by Chinese universities that will study the low-gravity interaction of a number of plants and silkworms. Chinese spacraft successfully lands on moon's far side and sends pictures back home 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “Could there be a deep biosphere on these other worlds?” said Robert Hazen, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory and George Mason University who directs the observatory. Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The mobile greenhouse will observe how well plants, specifically potatoes and small flowers, grow on the moon in the biosphere. Chinese lunar probe brings life to the far side of the moon 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Sánchez said it was in the company’s interests to protect the environment because many of its hotels are close to national parks and biosphere reserves. Solar, thermal… Spain’s historic hotels go green 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z "As the most numerous terrestrial vertebrate species on the planet, with a biology shaped by humans, modern chickens are a symbol of our changed biosphere." Why the chicken is a symbol of our times 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Underworld biospheres vary depending on geology and geography. Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z You would need a microscope to see this subterranean biosphere, however. The vast scale of life beneath our feet 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The "lunar mini biosphere" experiment was designed by 28 Chinese universities. China mission targets far side of the Moon 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z These are species essential to maintaining the biosphere. The Insect Apocalypse Is Here 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z South Korea submitted a plan to Unesco in 2011 applying for the demilitarised zone between it and its northern neighbour be turned into a biosphere reserve. Koreas tag-team for wrestling recognition 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Like domestic greenhouses, these domes illustrate the possibility of a more do-it-yourself approach to biosphere production. Dome, sweet home: climate shelters past, present and future 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z High economic inequality negatively impacts nearly every aspect of human well-being—as well as the health of the biosphere. The Science of Inequality 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z We study the atmosphere, the ocean, the biosphere—and what our human actions are doing to them. The Bad News We Need 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The gaps are already severe and growing—with impacts that affect almost every aspect of human well-being, from our personal health to that of the biosphere. Learning While Sleeping; the Challenges of Inequality 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z In the book, Nelson reflects on the group’s experiences and calls on people to renew their relationship with nature to help reverse trends threatening the original biosphere, Earth. Legacy of Biosphere 2 lives on in singular research space 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Earth and its biosphere need protection from home-grown threats as well as distant ones. Dome, sweet home: climate shelters past, present and future 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z In the book, Nelson reflects on the group's experiences and calls on people to renew their relationship with nature to help reverse trends threatening the original biosphere, Earth. Legacy of Biosphere 2 lives on in singular research space 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z This ancient biosphere seems quite alien—and yet these organisms must be our early ancestors. Say Hello to Dickinsonia, the Animal Kingdom's Newest (and Oldest) Member 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Those early precautions, now called “planetary protection,” were meant to prevent back contamination—the potentially catastrophic introduction of extraterrestrial organisms to Earth’s biosphere. Should the Moon Be Quarantined? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Both the terrestrial and marine biospheres are being altered rapidly and perhaps catastrophically. Opinion | The world is burning, and the Trump administration wants to make it worse 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z One exception is the proviso, codified in international law, to avoid potentially harmful interplanetary exchanges of biological material that could spark virulent epidemics on Earth or wipe out fragile alien biospheres. As Space Becomes a Busy Place, NASA Bolsters Its Planet-Contamination Police 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z But really, was anyone in the vast soccer biosphere worried about Brazil? The slow build of Brazil is picking up speed entering World Cup knockout stage 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The climate is basically a giant planet-sized machine with lots of moving parts—the atmosphere, the lithosphere, the cryosphere, the biosphere—and the interactions between those moving parts may be quite sensitive. Alien Anthropocene: How Would Other Worlds Battle Climate Change? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The lander will also tote a “lunar mini biosphere” experiment, designed by 28 Chinese educational institutions led by Chongqing University. Comsat Launch Bolsters China's Dreams for Landing on the Moon's Far Side 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The lunar probe will carry seeds for growing potatoes and arabidopsis, a flowering plant related to cabbage, for a “lunar mini biosphere” experiment. China aims to land on dark side of moon via launch of 'Magpie Bridge' satellite 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z It's not just animal instinct honed by evolution; it's the biosphere arranging birds in the most logical fashion. Bird migration explained at last: It’s all about energy efficiency 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z At the biospheres opening earlier this year, most of the comments by politicians were lighthearted. Amazon flexes political muscle, sending message to city officials here and elsewhere 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Nearly all the carbon that enters the biosphere is captured during photosynthesis, and as it moves through life’s web, every organism takes a cut for its own energy needs, releasing carbon dioxide as exhaust. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z If Earth comes in dead last, humanity will be wiped out, and the biosphere reseeded so the planet can try again later. Space Opera is the funniest science fiction novel I’ve read since Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z If we all cut consumption, lived more efficiently, and ate less meat, he suggested at one recent lecture, the biosphere would do fine. Meet Vaclav Smil, the man who has quietly shaped how the world thinks about energy 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes. Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The deep ocean, it appeared, was not a wasteland but a sort of galaxy composed of independent biospheres, each orbiting around its own life-giving chemical “sun.” Life on the Rocks 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z I believe women will still be on this planet in 2118 – a large assumption in view of our threatened biosphere, but fingers crossed. Will women be equal to men in 100 years? | Margaret Atwood, Lola Okolosie, Polly Toynbee, Athene Donald and Julie Bindel 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Thanks to initiatives such as this, the island shares Unesco biosphere reserve status with Archipélago de Colón, better known as the Galápagos, Yellowstone in the US, Uluru in Australia, and hundreds of other sites. Who’s driving the future of conservation? Ordinary people | Fiona Gell 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “Evolution is going to be part of how the biosphere responds to climate change,” Ellner says. How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Consequently, Catling isn’t holding his breath for Webb to find an anoxic biosphere on some red dwarf world. A New Recipe for Hunting Alien Life 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z In terms of cubic mileage of the biosphere, these scenes in the black deeps are the norm on our planet. What Eats What: A Landlubber’s Guide to Deep Sea Dining 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The primates are hardly a linchpin the biosphere could not spare. Opinion | Why animal extinction matters 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z But we are a part of the biosphere just like every other creature, and our actions are just as volitional, their consequences just as natural. Perspective | We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution. 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z I might not be alone thinking that Seattle’s big architectural projects, with exceptions such as the Amazon biospheres, are getting uglier. Remember Seattle’s old Greyhound bus station? Check out the ‘shoebox’ that replaced it 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”. A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z In essence, our global social network is much like our biosphere. The Ignorance of the Crowd 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Space is hostile to humans but friendly to appropriately designed robots, and offers many more resources than our thin film of biosphere, which receives less than a billionth of the sun's light. Falling Walls: The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The figures published by the WMO are what's left in the atmosphere after significant amounts are absorbed by the Earth's "sinks", which include the oceans and the biosphere. Record surge in atmospheric CO2 in 2016 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Merging black holes are expected to emit scarcely any radiation at all, making them surprisingly benign for any nearby biosphere. A Nearby Neutron Star Collision Could Cause Calamity on Earth 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Next year, Amazon will complete its most prominent addition — three glass biospheres featuring about 40,000 plants, "a unique environment for employees to come and collaborate and innovate," Schoettler said. What would happen if Amazon brought 50,000 workers to your city? Ask Seattle 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Next year, Amazon will complete its most prominent addition — three glass biospheres featuring about 40,000 plants, “a unique environment for employees to come and collaborate and innovate,” Schoettler said. What would happen if Amazon brought 50,000 workers to your city? Ask Seattle. 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z In South America, dry conditions tamped down plant productivity, meaning the biosphere took up less carbon dioxide, so that the region became a net source of CO2. NASA Satellite Reveals Source of El Niño–Fueled Carbon Dioxide Spike 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The agency seeks to coordinate climate knowledge, including studies of impacts on UNESCO’s network of biosphere reserves, and to improve international education about how global warming occurs and affects people around the world. UNESCO: The UN’s educational, scientific, cultural agency 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s the private finance initiative, or the degradation of the biosphere, or someone on a train with a loud voice, or a perfume called Psychoanalysis, or a helicopter. We are all angry on social media – at least try to listen to the rage of others | Zoe Williams 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Actually, that's not entirely accurate, because a lot of those concerns are actually intimately linked with our understanding of the nature of planetary environments, biospheres, and the probability of life elsewhere. Putting Odds on the Human Future 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Together, the combination of fossilized filaments and isotope-skewed pyrite suggests, they claim, that the deep biosphere in continental rocks may be “a neglected vast fungal habitat.” Moldy Rock Pulled from 2,500 Feet Underground 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z It is hard to rank such crimes against the biosphere, but perhaps the most embarrassing is Germany’s shocking failure, despite investing hundreds of billions of euros, to decarbonise its electricity system. Who’s the world’s leading eco-vandal? It’s Angela Merkel | George Monbiot 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z We may one day, for example, expand the biosphere “by about 32 orders of magnitude”. Artificial intelligence: The future is superintelligent : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “If they could build a biosphere where all that stuff is out of the equation, they would,” Miller said. ESPN Pulls a Broadcaster, Robert Lee, and Encounters a Storm 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Before any Mars specimens are released to the general scientific community for study, McCubbin said a "Sample Pre-Release Report" must be prepared to certify that the sample will not harm Earth’s biosphere. NASA Debates How to Retrieve Rocks from Mars 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Monitoring what microbes move in, and how quickly, will offer scientists an unprecedented chance to study how the deep biosphere evolves in space and time, Marteinsson says. Iceland drilling project aims to unearth how islands form 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Once we release the carbon dioxide stored in the fossil fuels we burn, it accumulates in and moves among the atmosphere, the oceans, the land and the plants and animals of the biosphere. If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change? 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The animal was spotted last week by wildlife photographer Nilanjan Ray while driving in Nilgiri biosphere reserve in Tamil Nadu state. Exceptionally rare 'pale tiger' photographed in the wild 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The deep ocean plays a critical role in the Earth’s biosphere – it regulates global temperatures, stores carbon and provides habitat for a huge array of creatures. Can deep-sea mining avoid the environmental mistakes of mining on land? 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z At the same time, the council approved requests by the U.S. and Bulgaria to remove some of those countries’ biosphere reserves from the official list. UN Announces 23 New Nature Reserves While U.S. Removes 17 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z The world’s complex web of myths, beliefs and ideas — which Mr. Davis calls the “ethnosphere” — is torn, just as the loss of a species weakens the biosphere, he said. Reviving a Lost Language of Canada Through Film 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Long Point Causeway, a road beside Lake Erie in Ontario, runs through a nature reserve - a Unesco "biosphere reserve" - which is home to a number of endangered species of turtles. Turtle disaster avoided with roadkill rescue - BBC News 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Gamma-ray bursts hurtle even more damaging shock waves, blasting any biosphere into oblivion. Ravenous Supermassive Black Holes May Sterilize Nearby Planets 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z That is the stark view of the world’s leading biologists, ecologists and economists who will gather on Monday to determine the social and economic changes needed to save the planet’s biosphere. Biologists say half of all species could be extinct by end of century 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z The biosphere reserve occupies the mouth of the Odiel River, in the province of Huelva, as well as a coastal fringe. UN Announces 23 New Nature Reserves While U.S. Removes 17 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Dung, reveals entomologist Richard Jones in this deft treatise, is a wonder of the biosphere. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z It protects the planet's biosphere from the continuous flow of solar and other cosmic radiation. Scientists record breach in magnetic field - BBC News 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The more we learn about the biosphere and our place in it, the more we realize the complex inter-dependencies that support our species and its intelligence. Can Evolution Have a ‘Higher Purpose’? 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z He wrote more than 70 papers, using computer models to delve into the relationship between the biosphere — the region of the Earth inhabited by humans and other organisms — and the atmosphere. Piers Sellers, climate scientist turned astronaut, dies at 61 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z U.S. sites removed from the biosphere reserve list this week: UN Announces 23 New Nature Reserves While U.S. Removes 17 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z He advocates “planetary intelligence”: merging our sense of selves with the whole biosphere, living and nonliving, to guide our planetary management. Sustainability: Earth, the long view : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It is, at certain times of the year, an easy access biosphere in inhospitable terrain. 'It's not just shopping, right?': life in the shadow of North America's biggest mall 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve, formally established last week and located along the Baja California peninsula, is one of three new marine biosphere reserves decreed as Mexico hosted the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cancun. Mexico establishes a vast marine reserve surrounding islands off Baja California 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z “Poor silicon, abundant in the Earth, but rejected by the biosphere for its wondrous evolutionary tinkering,” says Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel-prizewinning chemist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Living cells bind silicon and carbon for the first time 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The biosphere reserve includes the seasonally dry forests of Ecuador and Peru, which form the heart of the Endemic Region of Tumbes, one of the most important biodiversity hotspots of the world. UN Announces 23 New Nature Reserves While U.S. Removes 17 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Minor casualties on the road to a much more stable and less extinction-prone biosphere. Sustainability: Earth, the long view : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Promotional material for the event found on performancespace.com.au bills it as “an immersive experience inviting you to leave the urban wasteland behind and open yourself up to an intimate encounter with the biosphere.” Environmentalists embrace X-rated activism: ‘Ecosexual bathhouse’ at Sydney art festival 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Readers rave about Seattle/King County Clinic, rant about bright biosphere lights at night. Rant & Rave: Grateful for free medical-care clinic 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z I was really interested in how the biosphere interacts with the atmosphere, so I started modeling that on a computer. An Astronaut's Final Mission: Fight Climate Change and Cancer 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z This biosphere reserve includes a number of small villages, scattered farms and residential areas with a total population of some 45,806 inhabitants. UN Announces 23 New Nature Reserves While U.S. Removes 17 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z His lens captures the fragility of ecosystems so distant from one another and yet so interwoven in the biosphere. Mattias Klum photography exhibit open to public at Swedish Embassy in D.C. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The existence of what biologists now call the Earth’s deep biosphere was unknown to almost all biologists at the time of the Viking mission. Visions of Life on Mars in Earth’s Depths 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z A part of the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Unesco biosphere reserve, the national park is one of the most important biodiversity sites in all of the Caribbean. Death By A Thousand Cuts: documentary charts the dangers of deforestation 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Progress continues on the Amazon “biospheres” along Lenora Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues in Seattle. Workers on the ball at Amazon ‘biospheres’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The presence of sacred forests and isolated sacred trees is testimony to the vitality of the traditional cultural practices of the biosphere reserve’s 1,835,000 inhabitants. UN Announces 23 New Nature Reserves While U.S. Removes 17 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z And since custodians of sacred religious sites tend to be gentle on their natural surroundings too, last year Unesco declared Lake Tana a biosphere reserve. Forget the Safari: Africa’s Most Intriguing New Destination 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Today, the deep biosphere is thought to account for 10 to 20 percent of mass of all life on Earth. Visions of Life on Mars in Earth’s Depths 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Photosynthesis, he told us, enabled organisms to create their own food from solar energy and at the same time transform the biosphere by emitting oxygen. The 4 biggest milestones in the history of life on Earth 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Earth-system science takes an integrated approach, so that climate change affects the functioning of not just the atmosphere, but also the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the biosphere and even the lithosphere. Define the Anthropocene in terms of the whole Earth 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Competing horses arriving at Rio’s international airport will effectively enter a protective biosphere, screened extensively for diseases and parasites beforehand, whisked to the Olympic venue upon arrival and quarantined there for the duration. Brazil Fights Another Epidemic Before Olympics 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z After each of these mass extinctions, life on Earth eventually recovered but was irrevocably changed, with the creatures that survived, as much by happenstance as hard-earned fitness, becoming the unlikely founders of brave new biospheres. Did Oil Kill the Dinosaurs? 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In a review published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Boivin and her co-authors draw together new and old evidence for our long reshaping of the biosphere. There’s No Such Thing as Pristine Nature 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Cuba is home to six Unesco biosphere reserves and seven national parks. Satellite Eye on Earth: April 2016 – in pictures 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The views of these thinkers were opened up by their exploration of the biosphere, enabling them to expose that vision to the world. Natural history: Restore our sense of species 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Hanna Vronska, Ukraine’s acting minister of ecology and natural resources, said the Ukrainian government was considering the creation of a biosphere to preserve the unique ecosystem for further study. 30 Years After Chernobyl Disaster, an Arch Rises to Seal Melted Reactor 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z In March, Vronska said authorities were considering turning the uninhabitable zone into a biosphere to protect and study its native animal populations in what would be the largest nature reserve in Europe. In Chernobyl nuclear zone, animals thrive without humans 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Boivin emphasized that prehistoric humans’ effects on the biosphere were small compared with those of the planet’s 7.4 billion modern humans. There’s No Such Thing as Pristine Nature 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The somewhat bottle-opener-shaped Peninsula de Guanahacabibes biosphere reserve sits at the westernmost tip of Cuba, and is known for its diverse vegetation of mangroves, marshy grasslands, forest, and coastal scrublands. Satellite Eye on Earth: April 2016 – in pictures 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z How is this linked to the destruction of the biosphere? Saving Half the Planet for Nature Isn't As Crazy As It Seems 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z The cycles of the biosphere, from water to soil, are wonders of economy. Circular economy: Getting the circulation going : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Our entire existence on this planet is contingent upon the environment and the delicate balance of all living things in the biosphere but we treat our home like one big sewer. Beijing to Raise Threshold on Red Alerts for Smog 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Much of Earth's microbial biosphere still survives on these anaerobic pathways. What sparked the Cambrian explosion? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z He sees this as the last best hope for saving the world from environmental destruction, and concludes with the plaintive question “Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avoid planetary collapse?” What a study about empathy in animals may be able to tell us about autism in humans 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Although the drums will be crushed, the radioactive material will be locked in the dry, solid salt, with no way to release radioactivity to the biosphere. Policy: Reassess New Mexico's nuclear-waste repository 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z It now extends throughout much of the biosphere, including ourselves. Once it was the stuff of science fiction. Now genetic engineering is a reality. 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Homo sapiens has become so dominant a force shaping the properties of the biosphere that scientists now refer to the past two centuries as the Anthropocene Epoch – the age of the human. The 'age of the human' may not become the age of destruction | David Suzuki 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Even if the biosphere materializes, little would change in the near term. Budget woes threaten Mexico’s reputation as a conservation leader 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Well-to-do nations needed to acknowledge the damage that they were doing to the biosphere — and to accept that their fate was inseparable from the prospects of the rest of the world. Sustainability: The launch of Spaceship Earth : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, my colleagues and I published our latest assessment on the state of the biosphere and the parameters that must be safeguarded to remain within Holocene-like conditions. The planet’s future is in the balance. But a transformation is already under way 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Newfound groups of bacteria are throwing old assumptions about the tree of life into question, and revealing vast holes in our understanding of the planet's biosphere and its evolution. Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort Compared to the vast herds of mammals in parts of the world, human numbers were small, our technology simple and our ecological impact readily absorbed by the biosphere. The 'age of the human' may not become the age of destruction | David Suzuki 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “These are in effect manufactured by the technosphere for its own use on the basis of genetic blueprints appropriated from the biosphere.” How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The 530 square mile park, a Unesco biosphere reserve, is enjoying a tourist boom. Arizona's Organ Pipe park is a 'paradise' for tourists but a death trap for migrants 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It was when our species overtook the great forces of nature to become the most significant driver of change of Earth’s biosphere, the space where life exists. The planet’s future is in the balance. But a transformation is already under way 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z There are two major stumbling blocks to advancing our understanding of microbes' role in the biosphere. Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort “It’s almost like living in a biosphere or a dome,” Whittingham said. No. 5 Utah plugging away despite newfound national attention 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Never before has one species remodelled the terrestrial biosphere so dramatically to serve its own ends – the huge amount of biomass in the animals we eat.” How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Part of this quest involves combining our understanding of what life on Earth really is with the search for signs of biospheres elsewhere, whether on exoplanets or deep inside icy moons like Europa. Archimedes, 3 Trillion Trees and Life in the Universe 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In its place, we need a new research programme – a global endeavour with the vision of the Apollo missions – to ensure the stability of Earth’s biosphere. The planet’s future is in the balance. But a transformation is already under way 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z The worldwide extent and distribution of forest trees is absolutely critical to our understanding of our “terrestrial biosphere” – our home. Are We Missing the Forest Through the Trees? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The strawberries, basil, beans and tomatoes within these air-filled biospheres thrive in their submerged homes. Strawberries, Basil and Beans Thrive in Underwater Greenhouses 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z “It’s about recognising that we are stewards of nature and that every action we make will have an effect on the biosphere somewhere,” said Williams. How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z It made the transition from the biosphere to the geosphere very quickly.” Somerset County native helps to unearth Patagonian giant 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z At every level of the biosphere, we’re driving other species to extinction faster than the fastest rate ever before known. Are armadillos the greatest threat to civilization? 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The paper in Philosophical Transactions describes cancerlike phenomena in almost every niche of the biosphere. Cellular Cheaters Give Rise to Cancer 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Fittingly, Kepler-452b may represent an end in more ways than one, being a denouement not only for the Kepler mission, but also for any biosphere the faraway world might harbor. Kepler Mission Discovers a Near-twin of Earth Orbiting Sun-like Star 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z “If humans were to go extinct tomorrow, then our impact on the biosphere would be recognisable as an epoch boundary – like the boundary between the Pleistocene and Holocene,” Williams pointed out. How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Earth’s intricate biosphere may be unique and the searches may fail. Let's listen out for alien life – and remember we might not understand it 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Still, she said, “it was a very useful exercise, because it revealed gaps in knowledge about various aspects of the biosphere that we need to fill.” Counting All the DNA on Earth 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Multicellularity, imperfect as it must be, can be so advantageous that it has evolved independently a number of times during the history of the biosphere. Cellular Cheaters Give Rise to Cancer 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z “The critical thing that matters is to what extent the biosphere remains a brake on the rate of global climate change,” says Yadvinder Malhi, a forest ecologist at the University of Oxford, UK. The hunt for the world’s missing carbon 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z “After us, a few tens to hundreds of thousands of years in the future, the biosphere would find a new equilibrium without us, and probably with its biodiversity largely intact.” How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Habitats on land — rain forests, steppes, woodlands, deserts, alpine meadows, all well explored over the centuries — make up less than 1 percent of the planet’s biosphere. An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Given the average rate of genetic transcription for different organismal groups, they found that the biosphere processes more than 10^24 subunits of DNA per second. Counting All the DNA on Earth 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z But the “ecosphere” is just the biosphere of the earth, with emphasis on the interaction between its living and nonliving components. Rush Limbaugh’s anti-Pope freakout proves that he needs a crash course in reading comprehension 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Why, he asks, should humankind take the risk of dangerously altering the planet’s climate and biosphere when there are viable alternatives? Hope from the Pope 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Currently, the technosphere is more a parasite than a partner of the biosphere – it is terrible at recycling, for instance. The Earth stands on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and the fault is ours 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Scientists put the ocean’s share of the biosphere at more than 99 percent. An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z How should we value anthropogenic changes to the biosphere over that period of time? What Can We Do About Climate Change? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Even today, bacteria and archaea are probably more important than eukaryotes to the smooth running of the biosphere. Shape-shifters 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z So don't be surprised if in the future you soon find yourself working in a wifi biosphere, a deathstar, or a bean-bag. How the tech industry is redesigning the future workplace - BBC News 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z This particular perturbation to the biosphere, though, has some very special features. The Earth stands on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and the fault is ours 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Ditto Einstein and his relativistic universe; ditto Leeuwenhoek and the previously unseen biosphere revealed by his microscope. Life in Space? Maybe We Really Are Alone 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z After the fur parade, things started to lighten, as if the models had entered a new biosphere with more favorable conditions and were able to shed their outer layers. Paris Fashion Week: Leather, lace at Louis Vuitton, creating a look at Miu Miu 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z My insight is that we are almost self-contained biospheres. Harnessing the Power of Human Waste to Survive 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z The high seas—the vast roiling ocean that reaches beyond a coastal states’ 320-kilometer exclusive economic zone, or EEZ—is Earth’s largest biosphere. World Closes in on Consensus to Regulate Fishing on the High Seas 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Fundamental new patterns are emerging that may be compared, say, with the change, half a billion years ago, when a biosphere consisting only of microbes gave way to one dominated by multicellular animals. The Earth stands on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and the fault is ours 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Is a “shadow biosphere” hiding life right under our noses? Podcast: Lost civilizations, a 'shadow biosphere,' and why it’s OK to swear on Twitter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z These findings suggest that the deep biosphere is actually filled with connections, and that microbes move from one oil reservoir to another, colonizing them almost as soon as they form in some cases. Oil Eating Microbes Have Worldwide Underground Connections 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Biologists have proposed the existence of a “shadow biosphere”—an undiscovered group of living things with biochemistry different from what we’re used to. 'Shadow biosphere' might be hiding strange life right under our noses 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Biologists have proposed the existence of a “shadow biosphere” — an undiscovered group of living things with biochemistry different than we’re used to. 'Shadow biosphere' might be hiding strange life right under our noses 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z It was then that Stewart turned his attention to what was the biggest story in the journalism biosphere that night: the scandal surrounding NBC News’ Brian Williams. Jon Stewart’s exit as a phony newsman is a loss to real news 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z It was then that Stewart turned his attention to what was the biggest story in the journalism biosphere that night: the scandal surrounding NBC News' Brian Williams. Jon Stewart's exit as a phony newsman is a loss to real news 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z There are global advocacy campaigns reeling over Chinese oil exploration in the Ecuadorean Amazon and hydroelectric dams near biosphere reserves in Honduras. Why Latin America should not squander the China boom 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z “We now know that microbes make up the vast diversity of the biosphere, and that animal biology was shaped by interacting with microbes,” she says. Microbiology: Here's looking at you, squid 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Some of them may be “superhabitable” worlds—with stable biospheres that may be optimal targets in our search for extraterrestrial life in other corners of the galaxy. From the World Economic Forum to the World Library of Science to Superhabitable Worlds 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z In a literal flash the Earth would become a planetary charnel house, and the shattered biosphere would require millions of years to piece itself back together. Fact or Fiction?: The Explosive Death of Eta Carinae Will Cause a Mass Extinction 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “We need to harness the biosphere and see where we can apply levers to lift the carpet and sweep some of the carbon under.” Can Geoengineering Save the Earth? The anthropocene, in which humans exert a major impact on the biosphere, fails to distinguish this century from the previous 20. The age of loneliness is killing us 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Once under ecological strain, the lake is now celebrated as one of Europe’s most unique wetlands biosphere reserves. Das Burgenland: An Austrian Coming Of Age Tale 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The faster energiewende occurs, the better for our posterity and our biosphere. Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z "Preliminary data indicated that this was possibly related to reduced CO2 uptake by the Earth's biosphere in addition to the steadily increasing CO2 emissions," the WMO reported in a statement. Greenhouse Gas Pollution Sees Fastest Rise 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “This ocean iron fertilization is highly unpopular with technocratic geoengineers because it involves biology. But we have to get the biosphere to help,” he says. Can Geoengineering Save the Earth? Darke is a well-known garden writer and ecologically minded plantsman, and Tallamy is an entomologist whose influential 2007 book “Bringing Nature Home” established the utility of native plants in a greater biosphere. Improving your garden’s ecology Their light began its journey to Earth some 3.5 billion years ago, when our biosphere was in its infancy. Astronomers Use Gravitational Lenses to Push Hubble Past Its Limits 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Earth’s intricate biosphere may be unique. The geckos sent into orbit died, but don’t give up on life in space just yet 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The conditions of climate change—elevated temperatures, increased carbon dioxide levels and the accumulation of nitrogen in the biosphere—are difficult to replicate in a laboratory setting. Cities Model Earth's Future Climate Conditions “The only thing we can do is try and nudge the biosphere as much as possible and try to open up as many carbon sinks as possible.” Can Geoengineering Save the Earth? My journey continued onwards to breathtaking Sian Ka’an, the natural biosphere reserve, which is still a secret in terms of luxury vacation. Secret Luxury Spots In The Bohemian Beach Paradise Of Tulum, Mexico 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z He is a native of Bangor, Maine whose work focuses on issues including people’s impact on global environment, food systems and biosphere sustainability. Head of California science museum speaks in Maine 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z In 2011, when Abbott said that "all of us want to give the planet the benefit of the doubt" it sounded like he thought Earth's biosphere needed to prove its innocence. 'I am a conservationist' – is Abbott the only person who believes that? 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z All attempts to reconcile the industrial-scale exploitation of the biosphere by staying the right side of key environmental thresholds are failing. Forget life on Mars, it's closer to home that matters 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Plastic packaging in a throwaway culture finds its way into our ocean biosphere and then into the hands of artists. Upcoming Science-Art Events Around the Country 2014-04-29T18:17:57Z Those who hold legal title to carbon-based, climate-changing fuels are unwilling to relinquish the profits from their reserves even if the well-being of the biosphere requires that they do so. Readers Respond to "In Tech We Don't Trust" 2014-04-25T11:30:00Z But, with little of the deep ocean mapped or explored, environmentalists worry about the potential loss of fauna and biospheres whose existence is not yet understood. The robot is ready - so when will deep sea mining start? 2014-04-18T07:37:03Z It took more than a decade and considerable international support for Copén and a few other villages on the edge of the 1.3-million-acre Río Plátano biosphere reserve to become models for forest conservation. Copén Journal: Lawlessness Undoing Effort to Save Honduran Forests 2014-02-13T03:28:38Z Models assuming that rising temperatures and CO2 concentrations will increase photosynthesis, which absorbs CO faster than respiration emits CO, suggest that the biosphere could absorb up to 10 Pg C year. Carbon sequestration: Managing forests in uncertain times 2014-02-12T18:20:38.402Z "Whatever caused the extinction was really rapid, or the biosphere reached some critical threshold," Burgess told Live Science. Worst Mass Extinction Ever Took Only 60,000 Years 2014-02-11T11:10:00Z For several years, scientists wrote off the stall as noise in the climate system: the natural variations in the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere that drive warm or cool spells around the globe. Climate change: The case of the missing heat 2014-01-15T18:21:02.345Z The result of the earth's remarkable oxygenation over geological time is nothing less than our planet's rich biosphere of complex, multicellular life. Book Review: Oxygen 2013-12-27T13:45:02.073Z But an inconsistent result in Prudhomme's work raises questions about how a warming planet might interact with the biosphere, potentially altering future drought projections. What Do Computer Models Reveal about Likely Impacts of Climate Change? 2013-12-19T16:45:03.347Z Your work in the biosphere is very well known, but what are some of the coolest things you’re working on these days? Jane Poynter's 2020 Vision: Ready Your Spacesuits! 2013-11-01T15:04:00Z Human well being and improved stewardship of the biosphere are limited primarily by the strength of social systems and technologies, not by population or environment. Dot Earth Blog: An Ecologist Explains His Contested View of Planetary Limits 2013-09-16T14:02:55Z It is one thing using popular species to sell magazines, but this imbalance in research needs to be rectified if we are actually to take real steps in conserving the biosphere. Why We Don t Need Pandas 2013-09-12T14:18:15.927Z But Prof Benner's ideas add another twist to the theory of a Martian origin for the terrestrial biosphere. Earth life 'may have come from Mars' 2013-08-29T00:09:22Z The park was designated a world biosphere reserve by Unesco in the late 1980s. Ecuador Drops Plan to Ban Drilling in Jungle 2013-08-16T21:52:59Z There are thousands of other classes of VOCs, and how they are exchanged between the biosphere and the atmosphere is unclear. [Report] Active Atmosphere-Ecosystem Exchange of the Vast Majority of Detected Volatile Organic Compounds 2013-08-09T19:26:46.183Z This is not the point- I am concerned about what the real-world limits are to human well-being and improved stewardship of the biosphere. Dot Earth Blog: An Ecologist Explains His Contested View of Planetary Limits 2013-09-16T14:02:55Z By “biosphere,” he means everywhere on earth where there are living things: in the air, on the ground, and in the oceans. Dot Earth Blog: ‘Harvesting the Biosphere’ – Bill Gates on Vaclav Smil 2013-07-25T18:42:53Z Genome sequencing enhances our understanding of the biological world by providing blueprints for the evolutionary and functional diversity that shapes the biosphere. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter 2013-07-24T17:20:57.027Z "The basic functioning of the biosphere relies largely on photosynthesis." Technology as our planet's last best hope 2013-07-15T14:38:16Z The majority of these species were actively exchanged between the atmosphere and the biosphere, with more than a quarter showing net deposition. [Report] Active Atmosphere-Ecosystem Exchange of the Vast Majority of Detected Volatile Organic Compounds 2013-08-09T19:26:46.183Z Sulfate aerosol spraying would change not just the temperature but the ozone layer, global rainfall patterns and the biosphere, too. Op-Ed Contributor: Geoengineering: Our Last Hope, or a False Promise? 2013-05-27T01:09:37Z Smil starts with a big question: How much life is there in the biosphere? Dot Earth Blog: ‘Harvesting the Biosphere’ – Bill Gates on Vaclav Smil 2013-07-25T18:42:53Z This loss of global-scale biodiversity would significantly impoverish the biosphere and the ecosystem services it provides. Why a Hotter World Will Mean More Extinctions 2013-05-13T11:05:27Z But we find ourselves in a world where the welfare of humans and the biosphere faces considerable threats — climate change, invasive species and altered biogeochemical cycles, to name a few. Op-Ed Contributors: Save the Wolves of Isle Royale National Park 2013-05-09T01:01:06Z Existing biosphere models do not capture such effects, which Bahn thinks might be due to changes in soil microbes. Wild weather can send greenhouse gases spiralling 2013-04-10T17:20:22.117Z Genomics has now proven beyond a shade of doubt that we truly are one with the biosphere. Darwin Day: A personal offering 2013-02-13T00:15:00.270Z He estimates that we will harvest roughly 17 percent of what the biosphere grows this year — mostly plants. Dot Earth Blog: ‘Harvesting the Biosphere’ – Bill Gates on Vaclav Smil 2013-07-25T18:42:53Z But the biosphere is incredibly detailed: weird creatures prowl the environment, plants grow, breezes rustle through the branches. Proteus – review 2013-02-04T15:34:00Z Old forests are a vital part of the biosphere’s ecological infrastructure – and have a prominent, central role in making the Earth habitable through their cycling of carbon, energy, water, and nutrients. Obama Talks Climate Change. California Acts on It 2013-01-29T20:05:25Z His work focuses on problems of global change with an emphasis on interactions among the biosphere, greenhouse gases and climate. Live Chat: Can We Conquer Climate Change? 2013-01-16T13:51:05Z The name archaebacteria implies that these organisms were the dominant ones in the primeval biosphere. Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades 2013-01-01T00:45:00.170Z As more people join the middle class, they will demand more to eat, and more meat in particular, which will put an even bigger strain on the biosphere. Dot Earth Blog: ‘Harvesting the Biosphere’ – Bill Gates on Vaclav Smil 2013-07-25T18:42:53Z In the geological history of the biosphere, a great future is opened to Man if he realizes it and does not direct his mind and work to self-destruction. Dot Earth Blog: Exploring the Roots of an Emerging Planet-Spanning Mind 2012-12-26T16:44:29Z “That’s one of the benefits of going to the deep biosphere.” Ancient fungi found in deep-sea mud 2012-12-12T18:20:57.350Z New life was breathed into the biosphere concept in the 1960s, a fertile era for the melding of ecological principles and New Age philosophy. Rock Tasting at Biosphere 2 2012-12-11T14:15:00.217Z "There are many additional interactions between greenhouse gases, Earth's biosphere and oceans, and we need to boost our monitoring capability and scientific knowledge in order to better understand these." Greenhouse gases hit record high 2012-11-20T13:02:17Z For example, he writes a lot about the impact of meat-eating on the biosphere. Dot Earth Blog: ‘Harvesting the Biosphere’ – Bill Gates on Vaclav Smil 2013-07-25T18:42:53Z The public sphere is to society what the biosphere is to life on earth: the space we live in together, and the attacks on them have parallels. Words are the greatest weapon for political activists 2012-10-29T13:30:01Z Once these pesticides entered the biosphere, Carson argued, they not only killed bugs but also made their way up the food chain to threaten bird and fish populations and could eventually sicken children. Green Blog: Remembering 'Silent Spring' 2012-09-21T20:39:46Z This knowledge will help us understand how the Earth evolved from a rocky, uninhabitable planet into the green, fertile biosphere it is today. Rock Tasting at Biosphere 2 2012-12-11T14:15:00.217Z Another study that focused on the effects of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin reported the 'rare biosphere' in the gut. Genomic approaches to studying the human microbiota 2012-09-13T11:21:35.367Z The new discourse about "natural capital" is seen by some as another step towards the degradation of the biosphere. We must put a price on nature if we are going to save it 2012-08-10T11:13:55Z Anything that destroys habitat — mining, pollution, deforestation and global warming — disrupts the biosphere. Opinion: Listen to the Soundscape 2012-07-28T23:43:38Z No release from the threats of biosphere degradation in the promise of new biospheres. Op-Ed Contributor: Alone in the Void 2012-07-25T16:19:27Z The word “biosphere,” meaning the place on Earth’s surface where life dwells, was coined in 1875 by Edward Seuss, an early ecologist. Rock Tasting at Biosphere 2 2012-12-11T14:15:00.217Z But the agreement offers little in the way of relief for an increasingly pressured biosphere. Wealth gap curbs Rio goals 2012-06-27T17:50:19.163Z Some have postulated the existence of a 'shadow biosphere' on Earth, teeming with life that has gone undiscovered because scientists simply don't know where to look. Life-changing experiments: The biological Higgs 2012-03-28T17:20:33.930Z In these ways, phytoplankton are crucial to the global carbon cycle, the circular path by which carbon atoms travel from the atmosphere to the biosphere, to the land and then back to the ocean. Ocean Science: The power of plankton 2012-02-29T18:21:22.477Z The complexity of the biosphere gives us the opportunity to ask many questions about our planet, its changing climate, and the species that live on it. Climate Change: A planet in flux 2012-02-29T18:21:19.490Z In the early 1980s a team of scientists, architects, adventurers and dreamers decided to build an artificial biosphere—a geodesic-like structure within which they would create a self-sustaining community. Rock Tasting at Biosphere 2 2012-12-11T14:15:00.217Z The scale of the oceans dwarfs the rest of the biosphere and the consequences of marine pollution, over-fishing, and habitat reduction are biblical in their scope and consequences. The World to Australia: Save the Ocean! 2012-02-23T02:36:48Z Some scientists have speculated that desert varnish, a peculiar dark-coloured coating of unknown origin found on many desert rocks, could be a product of a shadow biosphere. Life-changing experiments: The biological Higgs 2012-03-28T17:20:33.930Z Yes, there is a finite amount of carbon in the biosphere. Guest Post: Rick Santorum and Climate Change 2012-02-16T19:45:12.093Z But, for land in particular, our impacts on the planet’s terrestrial surface are now so extensive and transformative that they threaten the capacity of varied ecosystems to self-regulate and maintain the living biosphere overall. The Smart Way to Play God with Earth's Limited Land 2012-01-20T22:15:00.427Z "The better we understand both the magnitude and distribution of human emissions, the better we understand what is happening in the biosphere." Database Tallies U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2012-01-18T01:15:10.617Z The Great Oxidation Event, as it is called in geology, “was clearly the biggest event in the history of the biosphere,” said Dr. Ward from Washington. Life Out There: Scientists Are Hot on Trail of Exoplanets Suitable for Life 2011-12-03T04:00:20Z The climate system is complex composite of several sub-systems, including the hydrosphere, the biosphere, the atmosphere, the geosphere and human systems. The Case for Climate-Change Alarmism 2011-10-11T01:23:12Z I am not saying that volcanic eruptions, or solar flares, or natural changes in the biosphere don’t change the climate. Guest Post: Rick Santorum and Climate Change 2012-02-16T19:45:12.093Z Dr. Ellis’s research investigates the global ecology of anthropogenic landscapes and their changes towards informing sustainable stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. Live Chat: Are We Entering a New Geological Age? 2011-10-05T14:16:26Z |
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