David Beerling: 2 books
Making Eden
How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Over 7 billion people depend on plants for healthy, productive, secure lives, but few of us stop to consider the origin of the plant kingdom that turned the world green and made our lives possible. And as the human population continues to escalate, our survival depends on how we treat the plant kingdom...
The Emerald Planet
How plants changed Earth's history
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet,...