Green The Story Of Plant Life On Our Planet

Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536237283

Get Book

Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet by Nicola Davies Pdf

Take a lively look at the biology of plants on Earth—and their vast importance to our planet—with this wide-ranging exploration from an award-winning team. This tree doesn’t look like it’s doing very much. It just stands there in the sunlight, big and GREEN. But in fact, this tree is busy . . . On land and in the seas, green plants make the oxygen and food that many living things—including us—need to survive. Covering the evolution of the first plants billions of years ago, the secret, microscopic workings of trees and leaves today, and the role of plants in both creating fossil fuels and combating climate change, this book is a lush and fascinating introduction to the science of plants that goes well beyond photosynthesis. Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton, the acclaimed team behind Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes, Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth, and Grow: Secrets of Our DNA, have crafted a hopeful exploration of green life that will encourage readers to treasure the flora of Earth’s many ecosystems.

Author : Sir David Attenborough
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781538720004

Get Book

A Life on Our Planet by Sir David Attenborough Pdf

*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the world. Then make it better. I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day -- the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake -- and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited. All we need is the will to do so.

Author : David M. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251740000

Get Book

Green planet : the story of plant life on earth by David M. Moore Pdf

Author : Simon Barnes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781473532410

Get Book

The Green Planet by Simon Barnes Pdf

Praise for The Green Planet (BBC One) 'David Attenborough's gobsmacking, awe-inspiring return' The Guardian 'The Green Planet reveals the secret lives of plants in the same way The Blue Planet opened our eyes to the oceans' New Scientist There's something new under the sun Plants live secret, unseen lives - hidden in their magical world and on their timescale. From the richest jungles to the harshest deserts, from the snowiest alpine forest to the remotest steaming swamp, Green Planet travels from one great habitat to the next, showing us that plants are as aggressive, competitive and dramatic as the animals on our planet. You will discover agents of death, who ruthlessly engulf their host plant, but also those that form deep and complex relationships with other species, such as the desert cacti who use nectar-loving bats to pollinate. Although plants are undoubtedly the stars of the show, a fascinating new light will be shed on the animals that interact with them. Using the latest technologies and showcasing over two decades of new discoveries, Green Planet reveals the strange and wonderful life of plants like never before - a life full of remarkable behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes.

Author : David Beerling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192519214

Get Book

Making Eden by David Beerling Pdf

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 and the soils that sustain it. Understanding the evolutionary history of our land floras, the story of how plant life emerged from water and conquered the continents to dominate the planet, is fundamental to our own existence. In Making Eden David Beerling reveals the hidden history of Earth's sun-shot greenery, and considers its future prospects as we farm the planet to feed the world. Describing the early plant pioneers and their close, symbiotic relationship with fungi, he examines the central role plants play in both ecosystems and the regulation of climate. As threats to plant biodiversity mount today, Beerling discusses the resultant implications for food security and climate change, and how these can be avoided. Drawing on the latest exciting scientific findings, including Beerling's own field work in the UK, North America, and New Zealand, and his experimental research programmes over the past decade, this is an exciting new take on how plants greened the continents.

Author : Stanley A Rice
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813546532

Get Book

Green Planet by Stanley A Rice Pdf

Plants are not just a pretty part of the landscape; they keep the entire planet, with all of its human and nonhuman inhabitants, alive. Stanley Rice documents the many ways in which plants do this by making oxygen, regulating the greenhouse effect, controlling floods, and producing all the food in the world. Plants also create natural habitats for all organisms in the world. With illustrations and clear writing for non-specialists, Green Planet helps general readers realize that if we are to rescue the Earth from environmental disaster, we must protect wild plants. Beginning with an overview of how human civilization has altered the face of the Earth, particularly by the destruction of forests, the book details the startling consequences of these actions. Rice provides compelling reasons for government officials, economic leaders, and the public to support efforts to save threatened and endangered plants. Global campaigns to solve environmental problems with plants, such as the development of green roofs and the Green Belt Movement—a women's organization in Kenya that empowers communities worldwide to protect the environment—show readers that efforts to save wild plants can be successful and beneficial to the economic well-being of nations. Through current scientific evidence, readers see that plants are vital to the ecological health of our planet and understand what can be done to lead to a better—and greener—future Benefits of plants: Help modulate greenhouse gases Produce almost all oxygen in the air Create cool shade that reduces energy costs Prevent floods, droughts, and soil erosion Produce all of the food in the world Create and preserve soil Create natural habitats Heal the landscape after natural and human disasters

Author : Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781405946698

Get Book

The Green Planet by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe Pdf

This is our Green Planet: a hidden world where plants care for other plants and can smell, taste, touch, hear and even . . . 'talk'. In the world of plants, time passes more slowly, but if we speed months into minutes we can peer into this hidden world and realise: it's a battleground. Plants are working to thwart their enemies, and to trick animals into working for them. Right under your feet, and all around you, is a secret world you've probably never noticed. Until now. Let's explore our Green Planet: a secret world of plants that might change how you see plants forever . . . Discover all there is to love about our astonishing Green Planet, the stories of its inhabitants, and the challenges it faces. In collaboration with BBC Earth, this illustrated non-fiction book captures the intrigue, drama, and beauty of the groundbreaking new BBC TV series: The Green Planet, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

Author : Florian Bushy
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798429471662

Get Book

Living Green and the Spell by Florian Bushy Pdf

What if you could explain children in a fun and playful way that the plants are living beings? Do you have problems with your children destroying your garden and flower pots? "Living Green and the Spell" is an adorable book that teaches children that the trees, flowers and plants are also living beings and should be preserved. You can read "Living Green and the Spell" to your child before bedtime every night and they will learn how valuable it is to take care of our planet. It's a great way for your child to learn and have fun at the same time. This book is part of the "Living Green" series, picture books for children that promote environmental awareness, respect and friendship. This fun journey will teach your child about: Nature and conservation Trees and plants are alive Friendship Respect In the beginning of time on planet Earth, trees, flowers, bushes and all other plants could walk, talk and live a happy life. One day, a visitor came to Earth with the intention of dominating the plants. Since then, the plants can no longer move. However, they are still alive! What would have happened that day? You won't regret buying this nature book for kids! Large print designed for easy reading (ebook-40pt/paperback-22pt) Bright colours Child-friendly size: 8.5" x 8.5" (21.59 cm x 21.59 cm) E-book and paperback available in English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish If you liked my work, would you like to write a review and recommend this book to other readers? That would help me a lot to keep writing good reading for kids like this book. Your children or grandchildren will love this book. It makes a perfect gift. Get your book today.

Author : YEA JEE. BAE
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538302002

Get Book

IMPORTANCE OF PLANTS TO LIFE ON EARTH by YEA JEE. BAE Pdf

Without plants, life as we know it could not survive. Plants provide humans and animals with air, shelter, food, and more. They harness the sun's power to supply energy to other organisms, protect and nurture environments, and yield endless resources for humans from clothes to medicine. Readers will learn of the invaluable uses and benefits of plants, as well as the threats they face. They will grow to appreciate the necessity of improving our planet through understanding and caring for plant life, and why it's important now more than ever.

Author : David Beerling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192519221

Get Book

Making Eden by David Beerling Pdf

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 and the soils that sustain it. Understanding the evolutionary history of our land floras, the story of how plant life emerged from water and conquered the continents to dominate the planet, is fundamental to our own existence. In Making Eden David Beerling reveals the hidden history of Earth's sun-shot greenery, and considers its future prospects as we farm the planet to feed the world. Describing the early plant pioneers and their close, symbiotic relationship with fungi, he examines the central role plants play in both ecosystems and the regulation of climate. As threats to plant biodiversity mount today, Beerling discusses the resultant implications for food security and climate change, and how these can be avoided. Drawing on the latest exciting scientific findings, including Beerling's own field work in the UK, North America, and New Zealand, and his experimental research programmes over the past decade, this is an exciting new take on how plants greened the continents.

Author : Stefano Mancuso
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781800815483

Get Book

Tree Stories by Stefano Mancuso Pdf

Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and accessories to murder. From art to politics, science to crime, these are the stories of the trees that have shaped life on Earth. Neurobiologist and philosopher Stefano Mancuso brings his signature charm and eye for unforgettable detail to tell eight stories of trees that have rooted themselves in human history - from the red spruces that were made into Stradivarius' violins to the wooden ladder that solved 'The Crime of the Century'. Combining scientific vigour with his inimitable voice, Mancuso reveals the amazing ways that the world's green-print has shaped the course of our lives, issuing a passionate rallying cry for greater care and attention towards the plants that have helped us survive and thrive.

Author : Hope Jahren
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780735275126

Get Book

The Story of More by Hope Jahren Pdf

From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren on climate change, our timeless pursuit of more, and how the same human ambition that got us here can also be our salvation. Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it.

Author : Stefano Mancuso,Alessandra Viola
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610916035

Get Book

Brilliant Green by Stefano Mancuso,Alessandra Viola Pdf

In this book, a leading plant scientist offers a new understanding of the botanical world and a passionate argument for intelligent plant life. Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? For centuries, philosophers and scientists have argued that plants are unthinking and inert, yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged this idea, shedding new light on the complex interior lives of plants. In Brilliant Green, leading scientist Stefano Mancuso presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. He argues that plants process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another-showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware. Part botany lesson, part manifesto, Brilliant Green is an engaging and passionate examination of the inner workings of the plant kingdom.--

Author : Florian Bushy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798510070507

Get Book

Living Green by Florian Bushy Pdf

"Our story starts many years ago, when Planet Earth was newly born...At that time, there were only trees, shrubs, and flowers. Planet Earth was so new, pure, and clean. This allowed all the plants to walk around like people! Yes, the plants could move around! Then one day, something happened. A spaceship appeared from over the horizon and landed on Planet Earth..."Living Green is a book about Planet Earth, environment preservation, respect and friendship. Florian Bushy wants to show to the kids that environmental conservation, friendship and mutual respect can change the future of their home, called Earth.This book has a coloring book version. Also, it is available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.

Author : Alastair Fothergill,Keith Scholey,Fred Pearce
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780399581540

Get Book

Our Planet by Alastair Fothergill,Keith Scholey,Fred Pearce Pdf

With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the Emmy–winning NETFLIX original documentary series, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action and the environmental change that has to be seen to be believed. With six hundred members of crew filming in fifty countries over four years, the directors that brought us the original Planet Earth and Blue Planet now take readers on a journey across all the globe’s different biological realms to present stunning visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action, and environmental change on a scale that must be seen to be believed. Featuring some of the world's rarest creatures and previously unseen parts of the Earth―from deep oceans to remote forests to ice caps―Our Planet takes nature-lovers deep into the science of our natural world. Revealing the most amazing sights on Earth in unprecedented ways, alongside stories of the ways humans are affecting the world’s ecosystems―from the wildebeest migrations in Africa to the penguin colonies of Antarctica―this book places itself at the forefront of a global conversation as we work together to protect and preserve our planet. With a keepsake package featuring debossing and foil stamping, this groundbreaking coffee-table book reveals the most amazing sights on Earth in unprecedented ways.