Search Results for: The Biosphere

"Vladimir Vernadsky was a brilliant and prescient scholar-a true scientific visionary who saw the deep connections between life on Earth and the rest of the pla

Reider tells the tangled tale of the creation, and eventual disintegration, of the experimental eco-utopia known as Biosphere 2.

An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production.

Describes the attributes of the biosphere, the animal and plant life that live in the biosphere, and how fragile and dynamic it is.

A guide for understanding the ecological and existential aspects of global environmental change. This book shows how to make global environmental problems more