David Beerling is Sorby Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Sheffield. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and is the author of Vegetation and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle (with Ian Woodward) and The Emerald Planet.
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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 su... SEE MORE