biosphere
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The island was designated a Unesco biosphere reserve in 2019, which recognises the sustainable ways in which local people work with their natural environment.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
A planet with ten percent carbon dioxide -- if located farther from its sun or orbiting a dimmer, younger star -- could support a biosphere for up to 4.2 billion years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
Various forms of evidence suggest that the biosphere was more productive during the Miocene compared to now, and that at higher latitudes, this effect was more pronounced.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
In contrast, land habitats make up less than 1 percent of the planet’s biosphere because the band of life is so narrow, making its volume quite small.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
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.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023
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.
From Scientific American ● May 27, 2023
Maine’s messy dilemma reflects how climate change is transforming biospheres the world over by expanding the northward range of parasites.
From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2022
Even if plants do succeed in adapting to climate change by changing their location or schedule, they’re not alone in their biospheres.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2019
The habitable zone concept focuses on this requirement for surface liquid water—even though we know that subsurface habitable conditions could prevail at more distant orbits—exactly because these worlds would have biospheres detectable at a distance.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Vocabulary lists containing biosphere
Words to Live By: Bio
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