Sentences with phrase «vast global cycle»
Water constantly moves through a vast global cycle, evaporating from lakes and oceans, forming clouds, precipitating as rain or snow, then flowing back down to the ocean.
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«Their silent but vast and ongoing war underpins everything from how global nutrient cycles — which rely on bacteria to produce half of Earth's biomass — operate, to how human pathogens evolve,» he says.
We are biologically homogenising the biosphere, overharvesting certain species and functional guilds, altering a range of biogeochemical cycles, fragmenting vast landscapes down to local ecological communities, and saturating the planet's surface in a number of synthetic compounds: the slash and burn approach to global habitat management.