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Burning Planet - The Story of Fire Through Time (Hardcover)
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Burning Planet - The Story of Fire Through Time (Hardcover)
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Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and
Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see
more of the same in coming years, as a result of climate change.
But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land,
large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth.
Andrew Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's
atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of
plant and animal life. It has caused mass extinctions, and it has
propelled the spread of flowering plants. The exciting evidence we
can now draw on has been preserved in fossilized charcoal, found in
rocks hundreds of millions of years old, from all over the world.
These reveal incredibly fine details of prehistoric plants, and
tell us about climates from deep in earth's history. They also give
us insight into how early hominids and humans tamed fire and used
it. Looking at the impact of wildfires in our own time, Scott also
looks forward to how we might better manage them in future, as
climate change has an increasing effect on our world.
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