How to Use biosphere in a Sentence

biosphere

noun
  • How is this linked to the destruction of the biosphere?
    National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
  • The goal of the biosphere isn't just to protect a shark habitat, though.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Yes, our biosphere owes a great deal to a pool of molten iron at the core of our planet.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2019
  • So much of the affairs on land are dictated by the health of the biosphere in the water.
    Olivia Yasukawa and Thomas Page, CNN, 10 July 2017
  • But the next year, the background emissions from the biosphere might be higher.
    Emily Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
  • The smaller island, around 50 square miles, is a UN biosphere.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The biosphere will become toxic to us and some other organism(s) will thrive on our waste.
    Peter M. Leschak, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Once the biosphere goes, the biosignatures likely go with it.
    Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Mutualisms are crucial for the function of the biosphere.
    Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
  • The legacy of the biosphere is, fittingly, mostly as a strange time capsule.
    Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
  • As such, the rock must keep the flow of waste from reaching the biosphere for as long as possible—a million years in Finland’s design.
    Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Biosignatures have no way to leave their biosphere of origin.
    Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Like many of the vital insects contributing daily to our biosphere, bees tend to get a bit of a bad rap in modern life.
    Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
  • In biology there are constraints and rules that guide the behavior of the biosphere, rules that emerge in time and in the process set the stage for the next step in evolution.
    Adam Frank, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Each of these is eroding the Earth’s ability to support a resilient biosphere.
    Chirag Dhara, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Perseverance is the tip of the spear in humanity’s grand quest to find traces of a relict Martian biosphere.
    Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
  • This is causing rapid, widespread changes to our oceans, our atmosphere and our biosphere.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The biosphere is the part of Earth occupied by living organisms.
    Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022
  • No one in the Hollywood biosphere is quite like Melissa McCarthy.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
  • In the book, Earth's biosphere has collapsed, and what's left of humanity is living in space habitats.
    Jeff Dunn and Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The city has been transformed, with new towers seeming to sprout weekly and Amazon's striking new biospheres due to open next year.
    Gene Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The article then goes on to predict the imminent collapse of our biosphere.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 July 2022
  • In a ten-year study, the DCO probed beneath the Earth's surface at locations across the globe, finding that the underground biosphere extends some three miles deep.
    Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2018
  • If Earth comes in dead last, humanity will be wiped out, and the biosphere reseeded so the planet can try again later.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Fashion is a full spectrum industry, touching billions of lives across the globe and reliant on a healthy biosphere.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly twice that of all the world’s oceans.
    Saugat Bolakhe, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • Studies of the Southern Ocean will allow scientists to assess this ocean’s impact on the Earth’s biosphere and climate.
    Discover Magazine, 27 June 2018
  • The challenge of our time – for designers and artist and everybody else – is to provide the biosphere with an equivalent platform.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • These offsets fall into two categories: removal from the biosphere and removal from the geosphere.
    Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • On Earth, the two gases only coexist because the biosphere continuously replenishes them.
    Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024

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