And I slowly lost track of where I was in this big biosphere, in this big biosphere that we all live in.

I've also lived in Biosphere 2.

Jane Poynter Life in Biosphere 2

I have had the distinct pleasure of living inside two biospheres.

Now we may not all have another biosphere that we can run to, and compare it to this biosphere.

Now we all live in some kind of a social and cultural circle.

But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted, then we too run the risk of drying up inside.

Others are involved in research activities as part of regional networks such as the Global Change Research Committee affiliated with the IGBP.

The objectives of ADEOS II are to observe global environmental change, to contribute to international science programmes such as the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, and to follow the ADEOS mission.

He went around once, he went around twice, he went around thrice.

The outer circle shows what exercises they were focused on.

The United Nations estimates that about 50,000 Palestinians living in 38 villages and towns will be confined behind the Barrier, of whom 10 per cent will live in closed areas or enclaves .

And on one particular day, the campers were jumping through inner tubes, They were diving through inner tubes. And I thought this would be great fun.

Can you take this biosphere, that has evolved on a planetary scale, and jam it into a little bottle, and will it survive?

Or will the biosphere stabilize?

I mean, what is a biosphere?

The biosphere is the size of the Earth.

The sphere of influence of social networking not only replaces the traditional telephone contact, but also gets down to the offline living circle, quietly changing the current social life of the people.

NEW DELHI The world now accepts that protecting our atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere the global commons is the responsibility of all countries. The same norm must apply to cyberspace, which is critical to our everyday life, economic well being, and security.

In 2001, MAB launched the UNESCO MAB UNEP GEF regional project Building Scientific and Technical Capacity for Effective Management and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Dryland Biosphere Reserves in West Africa .

And we wanted to know this both for being able to go somewhere else in the universe if we were going to go to Mars, for instance, would we take a biosphere with us, to live in it?

And it's one of the yellow set of blobs around the big yellow blob.

The inner circle shows the videos they're focused on.

The science budget is actually if you look to your left, there's a purple set of blobs and then yellow set of blobs.

IT engineer Wu Yan is a profound social networking lovers. His majority social life occurred online and his online contact is several times than that of offline friends.

I mean we were dragging ourselves around the Biosphere.

In Biosphere 2 I totally understood that I had a huge impact on my biosphere, everyday, and it had an impact on me, very viscerally, very literally.

For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction.

We can actually see how they're using ecospaces as large as an ocean.

And I put the rope around and around and around and around and around till I had no more rope.

A black child in a largely white world, he will always be the orphan Madonna adopted. The difficulties of living in such circumstances, however, are surely less daunting than the hazards David would have faced had he stayed in the orphanage assuming that he would have survived at all.

And if you lose where you are in your biosphere, or are perhaps having a difficulty connecting with where you are in the biosphere, I would say to you, take a deep breath.

There are two doctors in his circle of friends, a surgeon and an ophthalmologist.

Of course we all here in this room live in Biosphere 1.

We were trying to stop carbon from going into the atmosphere.

And I tried to come up for air, and my lower back hit the bottom of the inner tube.

So with the help of some biologists studying the fungus, I got some maps and some GPS coordinates and chartered a plane and started looking for the death rings, the circular patterns in which the fungus kills the trees.

And around and around and around it goes.

It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

At that moment I became part of that biosphere.

Orient your loop this way.

And the wonderful thing about that is that I get to compare biospheres.

One loop, two loops maybe you could do a three loop diagram, but beyond that, you couldn't do anything.

You could do a one loop diagram. Don't worry about one loop.

Some of the research undertaken through the World Climate Research Programme and the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme has been of major immediate socio economic benefits.