Eating the Sun
How Plants Power the Planet
Wherever there is greenery, photosynthesis is working to make oxygen, release energy, and create living matter from the raw material of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Without photosynthesis, there would be an empty world, an empty sky, and a sun that does nothing more than warm the rocks and reflect off the sea.Eating the Sun is the story of a world in crisis; an appreciation of the importance of plants; a history of the earth and the feuds and fantasies of warring scientists; a celebration of how the smallest things, enzymes and pigments, influence the largest things, the oceans, the rainforests, and the fossil fuel economy. Oliver Mor…
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- ISBN: 978-0-00-716365-6
- EAN: 9780007163656
- Produktnummer: 19413228
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.7 cm 406 g
- Gewicht: 406
Über den Autor
Award-winning science journalist Oliver Morton is the author of Mapping Mars, a contributing editor at Wired, and a contributor for The New Yorker, Science, and The American Scholar. He lives with his wife in Greenwich, England.
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