biosphere
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The charity said it had been a recurring problem in the town since 2022, which "makes a mockery of our biosphere status and gives a terrible impression of our island's attitude towards wildlife".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump sent shock waves through the geo-political biosphere, as U.S. leaders chimed in to condemn the attack.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 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
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
We have access to all the information of the biosphere, arriving as elementary units in the stream of solar photons.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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
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
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