Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future

by Stephen Porder

An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share

It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691177295
• ISBN13: 9780691177298
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"