News tagged with biosphere
EU probes mismanagement in prized Spanish wetland
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The European Union has launched an investigation into a prized Spanish wetland that has turned bone dry through mismanagement of water resources and is now on fire underground, white smoke now rising ...
Oases for Life on the Mid-Caymen Rise
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2009 |
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A team of oceanographers and astrobiologists is currently exploring one of the deepest points in the Caribbean Sea. Follow their blog as they search for life in this extreme seafloor environment.
Biosphere 2 Opens Phoenix Mars Lander Exhibit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C
The flash recovery of ammonoids after the most massive extinction of all time
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 02, 2009 |
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After the End-Permian extinction 252.6 million years ago, ammonoids diversified and recovered 10 to 30 times faster than previous estimates.
New proxy reveals how humans have disrupted the nitrogen cycle
Jun 04, 2009 |
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More and more, scientists are getting a better grip on the nitrogen cycle. They are learning about sources of nitrogen and how this element changes as it loops from the nonliving, such as the atmosphere, soil ...
Biosphere 2 experiment shows how fast heat could kill drought-stressed trees
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Widespread die-off of piñon pine across the southwestern United States during future droughts will occur at least five times faster if climate warms by 4 degrees Celsius, even if future droughts are no worse ...
90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms—expressed in terms of carbon mass—living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008. This t ...
