New estimate of living biomass: One third less life on planet Earth A fairly recent estimate of the earth's biomass, broken down by type of organism. A thousand billion is, of course, one trillion. read more
New estimate of living biomass: One third less life on planet Earth. A fairly recent estimate of the earth’s biomass, broken down by type of organism. A thousand billion is, of course, one trillion. read more
In order to estimate the total number of bacteria on Earth, the group at Georgia divided the Earth into several areas, including oceanic and other aquatic environments, the soil, the subsurface of soil, and other habitats such as the air, inside animals and on the surface of leaves. read more