The uncomfortable and inconvenient truth is that the physical resources of the biosphere are finite.

生物圈内的物质资源是有限的。

Which of these countries is home to the Sierra Gorda Ecological Region?

下列哪个国家是西拉格达生物圈保护区的发源地？

My worst fear is that we're going to make a modification that effects a whole chain of reaction in this environment and this island is small.

我最大的担忧就是我们有可能会改变这个小岛上生物圈的整条反应链。

Could humanity stop its destructive ways and restore balance to its relationship to its biosphere?

人类真的能停止破坏性的行，与生物圈的平衡关系吗？

In 1998, futurist Philip Pauley designed an underwater colony called the Sub-Biosphere 2.

1998年，未来学家菲利普·保利设计了一个名“亚生物圈2号”的水下栖息地。

So, while a rasher of bacon may become an illicit luxury only available in a fancy restaurant, crunchy nut cricket flakes could mean starting the day with a bowl of creepy crawlies from your garden biosphere.

因此，当一片培根可能成只有在高级餐厅才能买的非法奢侈品时，松脆的坚果蟋蟀片也许意味着以一碗来自你花园生物圈的骇人爬虫开始你一天的生活。

Natural ecosystems usually have more complicated food chains, however.

大自然生物圈中有很多更复杂的食物链。

This is Biosphere 2, located along the foothills of Arizona, Santa Catalina mountains, it was built by a group of researchers to explore the idea of colonizing other planets.

这是生物圈2号，位于亚利桑那州 Santa Catherine 山上，一些研究员建立这个系统以助于将来的星际移民。

According to professor Wang Aimin, a marine expert from Hainan University, the marine ranch demonstration zone's more than 2,500 artificial cement reefs and 21 ship reefs have enabled coral, fish, shrimp and shellfish to flourish.

据海南大学海洋专家王爱民教授介绍，海洋牧场示范区有 2500 多个水泥型人工鱼礁和 21 个船型礁，促进珊瑚、鱼、虾和贝类等海洋生物圈繁荣。

So when Greta says: " The global biosphere is being sacrificed so that rich people can live in luxury" she expresses an opinion, because her claim cannot be objectively verified.

因此，当格蕾塔说：“了让富人过上奢侈的生活，全球生物圈正在被牺牲”时，她表达了一种观点，因她的说法无法得客观的验证。

There may be a temptation to treat the biosphere holistically and the species that compose it as a great flux of entities hardly worth distinguishing one from the other.

也许有些人会走捷径，用一种整体的视角来看待整个生物圈, 将其中的物种看成是个体的流动, 无须区分出它们之间的细微差别。

I would like us to think of ourselves as citizens of the Earth, not just of the human world, but the whole living system, the biosphere.

我希望我们把自己看作地球的公民，不仅仅是人类世界的公民，而是整个生命系统，生物圈的公民。

The finding indicates that the biosphere more than three billion years ago was much more complex than previously appreciated, and perhaps had already colonized land.

该研究表明30多亿年前的生物圈比我们目前推测的要复杂得多，而且也许已延伸了陆地。

Also, this protected area is included in an international biosphere reserve and is part of the Wrangell - St. Eliza UNESCO World Heritage Site.

此外，该保护区还被列入国际生物圈保护区，是联合国教科文组织世界遗产弗兰格尔-圣伊莱扎的一部分。

Without insects, the biosphere — the living parts of the Earth — would rot because of the loss of insect decomposers.

如果没有昆虫，生物圈——地球上有生命的部分——将会因失去昆虫分解者而腐烂。

With over 21 billion broiler chickens in existence, human production of the species has fundamentally reconfigured Earth's biosphere, researchers say.

研究人员称，人类生产的210亿只肉鸡从根本上改变了地球生物圈的结构。

It was generalized from the article that water is important in the development of biosphere.

文章归纳出水在生物圈的发展中起着要作用的观点。

The biosphere's director has only ten staffers to monitor a hundred and thirty-eight thousand acres of land.

生物圈的主管只有十名工作人员，来监督十三万八千英亩的土地。

The study drew on recent evidence from scientific studies of the Antarctic Ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere and biosphere.

这项研究利用了南极海洋、大气、冰冻圈和生物圈科学研究的最新证据。

Ultimately, we can build a future, in which we don't just manage fire to protect human life and property, but also to protect the biosphere for global carbon emissions and for biodiversity.

最终，我们可以建设一个未来，我们管理火灾不仅是了保护人类生命和财产，还是了保护生物圈，减少全球碳排放以及生物多样性。