The Story of Planet Earth: An attempt to share the history of Planet Earth from stardust to the present…

The Story of Planet Earth: An attempt to share the history of Planet Earth from stardust to the present…
ISBN-10
8179935353
ISBN-13
9788179935354
Category
Science
Pages
120
Language
English
Published
2016-04-22
Publisher
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Author
Renu Anand

Description

For thousands of years, humans have probed and pondered over our planetary home. How was the Earth formed? How old is it? How did it become a living world? Today, because of our expanded knowledge and the wonders of technology, we know a lot more about Earth than our ancestors. We know that it is an evolving planet, undergoing never-ending changes, perhaps at a pace unequalled in its recent, or even remote, past. The Story of Planet Earth gives a detailed, yet interesting, account of a lot more aspects related to the creation of Earth – Earth’s origin in light of the Big Bang explosion, arrival of water on its surface, formation of its atmosphere, evolution of life forms from unicellular organisms to giants like dinosaurs, changes from its core to crust and its current state in terms of unsettling global changes, a majority of which find their roots in our greed and thoughtlessness. The book goes beyond time, into the future, to see what may be in store for our forthcoming generations, if we don’t care about this “home” of ours.

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