D J Beerling

The Emerald Planet

by D J Beerling

This is a book by somebody who studies plant fossils and their role in life on earth. Plants are grievously overlooked, because no life on earth would exist without them. It explains, for example, how the oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere came from plants, the role of plants and trees in the carbon cycle and, of course, we all understand that carbon has a role in controlling our climate nowadays. So, if you want to know about that then this is the book.

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