animal life
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As well as damage to natural habitats and animal life, Thomas warned loss of soil could increase flood risks, because it no longer acts as a "sponge" holding water on high ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Teeming with plant and animal life, the oceans are responsible for creating half of the globe's oxygen supply and are vital to combatting climate change, conservationists say.
From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026
Roughly 80% of animal life in terrestrial soils and about 90% of animals living on the ocean floor are nematodes.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026
For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025
Berkner suggests that there may have been cycles of oxygen production and carbon dioxide consumption, depending on relative abundances of plant and animal life, with the ice ages representing periods of apnea.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
