If there is little or no axial tilt ( or obliquity ) relative to the perpendicular of the ecliptic, seasons will not occur and a main stimulant to biospheric dynamism will disappear.
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An " ecological " market failure exists when human activity in a market economy is exhausting critical non-renewable resources, disrupting fragile ecosystems services, or overloading biospheric waste absorption capacities.
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Global change studies at GISS are coordinated with research at other groups within the Earth Sciences Division, including the Laboratory for Atmospheres, Laboratory for Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences, and Earth Observing System science office.
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Biogenic chemicals are derived from biospheric carbon, which contains 14 C . Carbon in artificially made chemicals is usually derived from fossil fuels like coal or petroleum, where the 14 C originally present has decayed below detectable limits.
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EnMAP is designed to record bio-physical, bio-chemical and geo-chemical variables on a global basis and thus, to increase our understanding of biospheric / geospheric processes and to ensure the sustainability of our resources.
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In the 1990s, his focus began to shift to global ecosystems when he became a member of the scientific steering committee of the Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle core project of the IGBP ( International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme ).
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He recognised over 4 decades ago that human's callous environmental devastations and contamination of the natural environment would adversely affect the planet's natural balance, its ecosystems biodiversity and its biospheric processes ( causing global warming and climate change ).
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As the vice-president of Biospheric Development for the project, as well as Executive Chairman, Allen was responsible for the science and engineering that created the materially closed life system, as well as the development of spin-off technologies.
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The prospects for outdoor recreation are so good that advance campground reservations for state parks and national parks are the highest in history, according to the Destinet reservation service, and way up for the Forest Service as well, according to the Biospheric reservation service.
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A notable aspect of Catton's writing is its expansion beyond the specialization silos so often seen in academia and sometimes reflects greater whole-systems understandings of Earth's biospheric life-support machinery than others whose fields of specialization are more narrowly focused.
