biosphere

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

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

They occur when small perturbations trigger a large, non-linear response in the system and shift the climate to a different future state, usually with dramatic consequences for the biosphere.

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024

When viruses come out of an ecosystem, they tend to spread in waves through the human population, like echoes from the dying biosphere.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

With more than 250,000 known species, nematodes comprise the world's most abundant animal phylum in both aquatic and terrestrial biospheres.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

Might biospheres someday be found eking out existence around post-red giant stars or on worlds without a star at all?

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 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