The Emerald Planet
How Plants Changed Earth's History
Ranked #25 in Botany, Ranked #48 in Earth Science — see more rankings.
Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2C or 8C over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking into the distant past, for a comparison with the world long before the rise of mankind. We may currently believe that atmospheric shifts, like global warming, result from our impact on the planet, but the earth's atmosphere has been dramatically shifting since its creation. Drawing on... more
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Jonathan Silvertown The Emerald Planet is a serious talking to about why plants must not be ignored. (Source)
Andrew Scott Beerling clearly shows that plants shaped the world in which we live and played a more important role on the evolution of our planet that is often acknowledged. (Source)
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