However, the cerrado needs a second miracle one of conservation and sustainable use if any of this unique biome is to survive.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Players are given a handful of settlers and placed in the biome of their choosing, and left to fend for themselves.

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Every biome is under siege.

FORBES: Mocking the Earth

During this single event, the immediate combustion of plants and soils and the thawing of frozen soils injected an enormous amount of carbon into the atmosphere an amount equivalent to what the entire tundra biome typically absorbs from the atmosphere through plant growth every year.

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