biosphere
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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
"We must protect our biosphere - it is not a zero-sum game," he added, pointing to a recent report by the Office for National Statistics that valued UK ecosystems at £1.8tn.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
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 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.
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
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
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.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2019
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
We need to understand that we might not be able to detect biospheres even if they exist.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Vocabulary lists containing biosphere
Words to Live By: Bio
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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