{"id":204061,"date":"2025-01-19T08:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-calculated-the-ultimate-lifespan-of-earths-biosphere"},"modified":"2025-01-19T08:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:29:26","slug":"scientists-calculated-the-ultimate-lifespan-of-earths-biosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-calculated-the-ultimate-lifespan-of-earths-biosphere","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Calculated The Ultimate Lifespan of Earth\u2019s Biosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-calculated-the-ultimate-lifespan-of-earths-biosphere2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Earth\u2019s life survives the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/anthropocene\">Anthropocene<\/a>, it will eventually face another existential threat from space.<\/p>\n<p>As the Sun brightens with age, it will inevitably interfere with our planet\u2019s finicky carbon cycle, triggering a depletion of atmospheric carbon dioxide to the point where plants will starve.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, this won\u2019t happen until at least 1.6 billion years from now, suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.org\/10.3847\/PSJ\/ad7856\">new research<\/a> from University of Chicago geophysicist RJ Graham and colleagues. That potentially doubles the projected lifespan of Earth\u2019s plants and animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Earth\u2019s life survives the Anthropocene, it will eventually face another existential threat from space. As the Sun brightens with age, it will inevitably interfere with our planet\u2019s finicky carbon cycle, triggering a depletion of atmospheric carbon dioxide to the point where plants will starve. Luckily, this won\u2019t happen until at least 1.6 billion years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}