Earth - The Power of the Planet
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"Earth: The Power of the Planet" highlights the major events which have shaped the Earth's history and allowed life to flourish. Presented by Dr Iain Stewart, each episode will reveal a different force critical to the development of Earth including volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice. The series follows Dr Stewart's personal journey to some of the most remote places on the planet, from abseiling down into a lava lake in Ethiopia to cave diving in the underwater caverns left by the impact of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs. He will discover how volcanoes saved the planet, how a rainstorm lasted for thousands of years, and how the Mediterranean Sea once dried up. Each individual film highlights the delicate balance of life on Earth, and how its incredible history has been the story of disaster and recovery.
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Earth: The Biography - Hardcover
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After four and a half billion years, our planet is approaching old age the perfect time to look back on an extraordinary life. In Earth: The Biography, renowned science writers Iain Steward and John Lynch use groundbreaking imagery and the latest scientific discoveries to tell the epic story of Earth&#x;s birth, life stages, and distant future demise.
Each chapter examines one of the five essential forces meteor impacts, plate tectonics, the ocean, the atmosphere, and ice that drive and shape our planet and determine its destiny. New imaging techniques and spectacular graphics combine to reveal hitherto hidden information about these forces, depicting them in action today as they keep the Earth alive and going back in time to show how cataclysmic events played roles in the planet&#x;s development. More than full-color photographs and illustrations present the familiar in a striking new light, while the authors&#x; straightforward style brings an engaging clarity to advanced scientific concepts.
The National Geographic Channel television series to which Earth: The Biography is the companion volume is expected to reach a viewersh
Earth
Earth – our home planet – is the third planet from the Sun, and the fifth largest planet. It's the only place we know of inhabited by living things.
While Earth is only the fifth largest planet in the solar system, it is the only world in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. Just slightly larger than nearby Venus, Earth is the biggest of the four planets closest to the Sun, all of which are made of rock and metal.
Earth is the only planet in the solar system whose English name does not come from Greek or Roman mythology. The name was taken from Old English and Germanic. It simply means "the ground." There are, of course, many names for our planet in the thousands of languages spoken by the people of the third planet from the Sun.
Namesake
The name Earth is at least 1, years old. All of the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. However, the name Earth is a Germanic word, which simply means “the ground.”
Potential for Life
Earth has a very hospitable temperature and mix of chemicals that have made life abundant here. Most notably, Earth is unique in that most of our planet is co
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I have previously jokingly called the &#;Earth biography&#; a rite of passage for science writers; many authors try their hand at it at some point. Fortunately, the Earth is big and time is deep, so there are numerous ways to tell this story. Here, it is palaeontologist Elsa Panciroli&#;s turn. Next to many unusual examples by which to tell the story of life&#;s evolution, her writing stands out for correcting common misconceptions and for its inspired language.
Panciroli has rounded up the most iconic and important organisms into 47 vignettes. The selection of organisms includes some of the usual suspects; after all, no self-respecting earth biography could do without trilobites, ammonites, or Archaeopteryx. More interesting are the lesser-known representatives of some of life&#;s major evolutionary transitions. So, as an example of the first animals with a notochord (the precursor of the backbone), she discusses Myllokunmingia found in China rather than the usual example of Pikaia. And as an example of the water-to-land transition of vertebrates, she includes Acanthostega rather than Tiktaalik. When discussing m
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