Slime : how algae created us, plague us, and just might save us
by Kassinger, Ruth (Author)
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Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist. There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmo... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Section I: In the beginning
- Pond life
- Something new under the sun
- Algae get complicated
- Land ho, going once
- Land ho, going twice
- Looking for lichens
- Section II: Glorious food
- Brain food
- Seaweed salvation
- On a grand scale
- Welshmen's delight
- A way of life
- Flash!
- Spirulina
- Section III: Practical matters
- Feeding plants and animals
- In the thick of it
- Land ho, going thrice
- Stuff
- Oil
- The algae's not for burning
- Ethanol
- The future of algae fuel
- Section IV: Algae and the changing climate
- Gad zoox
- Saving the reefs
- A plague upon us
- Clean-up
- Making monsters
- Geoengineering.