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The Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) is an independent group of scientists which advises on climate change and biodiversity, [1] headed by Sir David King. [2] [3]Its goal is to "provide the global public with regular analysis about efforts to tackle the global heating and biodiversity crises".
Kingdom of Plants 3D is a natural history documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, which explores the world of plants. It was filmed over the course of a year at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew .
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This is a list of Directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: . 1759–1793 William Aiton [1]; 1793–1841 William Townsend Aiton [1]; 1841–1865 Sir William Jackson Hooker [2]
Francis Masson (1741–1805) was a Scottish botanist and gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter; sent from Kew by the newly appointed Sir Joseph Banks he sailed with James Cook on HMS Resolution to South Africa, landing in October 1772. He stayed until 1775 and sent back to England over 500 plant species.
Combined with the five-kingdom model, this created a six-kingdom model, where the kingdom Monera is replaced by the kingdoms Bacteria and Archaea. [16] This six-kingdom model is commonly used in recent US high school biology textbooks, but has received criticism for compromising the current scientific consensus. [ 13 ]
In 1905 he became Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, [5] a post he held until 1922 when he was succeeded by Sir Arthur William Hill. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in the 1906 Birthday Honours by King Edward VII. In 1912 he was knighted by King George V.
Sir David Anthony King (born 12 August 1939) [1] is a South African-born British chemist, academic, and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG). King first taught at Imperial College, London , the University of East Anglia , and was then Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry (1974–1988) at the University of Liverpool .