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unusual facts about biosphere


Anne Beadell Highway

The road also passes through Mamungari Conservation Park, one of Australia's twelve World Biosphere Reserves that contain pristine arid zone wilderness and possess cultural significance.


April Records

List of musicians recorded on this label includes: Underworld, DJ 360°, Biosphere, Blue Foundation, Lindberg Hemmer Foundation, Thomas Knak aka Opiate, Jesper Skaaning aka Acustic, Anders Remmer aka Jet, Future 3.

Ash International

Artists who have released their work on Ash International include Carl Michael von Hausswolff, S.E.T.I., Bruce Gilbert, Disinformation, Scanner, Paul Williams, freq out, Hazard and most recently Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere).

Bamingui-Bangoran National Park and Biosphere Reserve

The park and biosphere reserve complex is located in the country's centre-north, west of N'Délé and close to the border with Chad.

Cadalene

The ratio of retene to cadalene in sediments can reveal the ratio of the genus Pinaceae in the biosphere.

Danielle Harold

On Jamie's Dream School, she was seen as one of the brightest of the students and was rewarded by Jane Poynter and Robert Winston with the chance to stay in the biosphere which Poynter had lived in for two years.

Eduard von Falz-Fein

:5th class (13 September 2007) - for outstanding contribution to the preservation of Ukrainian heritage, and active participation in the development of conservation and environmental education activities at the Biosphere Reserve Askania-Nova, named FE Pfalz-Fein Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences

:2nd class (22 May 1998) - for his significant contribution to the preservation of the Ukrainian historical and cultural heritage, the active promotion of the Biosphere Reserve Askania-Nova

Expo 67 pavilions

The exposition displayed many nations, corporations, industries, technologies, social themes, religions and designs, including the U.S. pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.

Gaia Movement

Gaia Preservation Coalition: The Gaia Preservation Coalition is a gathering of those who are concerned about the impact of humanity upon the biosphere and who seek with others to reduce the carbon footprint of society through the creation and exploration of ideas and actions that move Humanity toward a more harmonious relationship within Gaia.

Gaian Greens

Political Gaians are a relatively recent offshoot of the ecology movement—and get their name from the Gaia hypothesis, a postulate first devised by James Lovelock holding that the biosphere tends to homeorhetic balance or even homeostasis (with the implication that human beings should be working toward such balances or states.)

Jiquilisco Bay

The Jiquilisco Bay Biosphere Reserve is located on the southeast Pacific coast of El Salvador, in the department of Usulután.

MacCallum

Taber MacCallum (21st century), one of the original crewmembers of Biosphere 2

Niokolo-Koba National Park

The Biosphere park itself covers some 9,130 square kilometres, in a great arc running from Upper Casamance/Kolda Region at the Guinea-Bissau border into the Tambacounda Region to within a hundred kilometers of the Guinean border near the southeast corner of Senegal.

Overconsumption

The term “ecological footprint” refers to the “resource accounting framework for measuring human demand on the biosphere.” A study by Mathis Wackernagel has shown that the global ecological footprint was in overshoot by .4 global hectares per person, or roughly 23%.

Pete Namlook

Pete Namlook has released many solo albums, as well as collaboration albums with notable artists such as Klaus Schulze, Bill Laswell, Geir Jenssen (alias Biosphere), Atom Heart, Richie Hawtin, Tetsu Inoue, Dr. Atmo, and Tying Tiffany.

Peter Bridgewater

He was Chief Scientist of the UK Nature Conservancy Council 1989-1990, Chief Executive of the Australian Nature Conservation Agency and Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (1990-1997) and Secretary of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme and Director of its Division of Ecological Sciences 1999-2003.

Pimachiowin Aki

Pimachiowin Aki (which means Land that gives life in Ojibwe, ᐱᒪᒋᐅᐃᐧᓂᐊᑭ) is a large proposed UNESCO biosphere reserve and World Heritage Site located in the Boreal Forest that covers parts of Manitoba and Ontario.

Pinacate

El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, Mexican biosphere reserve including the Pinacate Peaks

Richard B. Hoover

He was co-investigator with David McKay (PI) of the NASA Johnson Space Center on the study of biomarkers and microfossils in meteorites, astromaterials and ancient terrestrial rocks, and collaborated with Kenneth Nealson (PI) from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the investigation of microbial extremophiles from some of the Earth's most hostile environments as related to the co-evolution of planets and biospheres.

South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve

The biosphere reserve has an area of 30,034 hectares and lies in the county of Mansfeld-Südharz on the territory of the towns of Allstedt and Sangerhausen and the municipalities of Berga, Südharz and Wallhausen.

South Harz Nature Park

To the east is the South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve (in Saxony-Anhalt), to the north, the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park and to the northwest, the Harz Nature Park (in Lower Saxony).

The Uplift War

The ecologically sensitive galactic civilization killed all Bururalli, demoted their patrons, the Nahalli, to clients of the Thennanin, and began working to preserve and repair the remaining ecosphere of Garth.


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