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Articles, resources, and announcements from Biosphere.
According to a recent report in Science, the Amazon rain forest has lost nearly two million acres to logging each year since 1996.
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July 28, 2020
Working to identify regional and global data sets that relate to the function of global ecosystems.
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July 28, 2020
Soil moisture is one of the components of land-surface evapotranspiration, and is a required parameter for evaporation calculations.
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July 28, 2020
Phytoplankton blooms occur in all the Earth’s oceans when nutrient and sunlight conditions are right.
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July 28, 2020
Increased human population often leads to greater influence on the environment and sharper declines in species and ecosystems.
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July 28, 2020
Hunting for elusive answers to a multitude of questions about humanity's role in global climate change.
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July 28, 2020
The quiet forests of Canada may slowly be losing carbon, not from the trees themselves, but from the frozen soils underneath, where deep pools of carbon are locked within permafrost.
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July 28, 2020
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