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TRANSPIRATION. "A new study estimates that 80 to 90 percent of the atmospheric water vapor originating from Earth's continents comes from plant transpiration rather than simple physical evaporation. This process uses up almost half of the solar energy absorbed by our landmasses and represents a major piece of our terrestrial climate system." https://lnkd.in/dKcjbbW View in LinkedIn

Marly limestone sculpture, Girona. View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. "The team revised the rate of global photosynthesis upward. The rate is expressed in terms of how much carbon is processed by plants in a year. From the previous estimate of 120 petagrams of carbon a year, the team set the annual rate between 150 and 175 petagrams.” (One petagram equals one trillion kilograms). https://lnkd.in/dzpW9-Q View in LinkedIn

INEVITABLE. "Swiss Government's Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology concludes that plants have rights, and we have to treat them appropriately. A majority of the panel concluded that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive." https://lnkd.in/dgH-auZ View in LinkedIn

DIFFERENT TIME SCALES. "Midwinter, and the countryside is so still, it seems almost lifeless. But these trees and bushes and grasses around me are living organisms just like animals. And they have to face very much the same sort of problems as animals face throughout their lives if they're to survive. They have to fight one another, they have to compete for mates, they have to invade new territories. But the reason that we're seldom aware of these dramas is that plants of course live on a different time-scale." (David Attenborough). https://lnkd.in/dUFDzhT View in LinkedIn