; Eden Bid to Show Importance of Plant Biology

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A SCIENTIST and television presenter is to spend 48 hours sealed inside an airtight chamber for a new television series. Professor Iain Stewart, a geologist who has presented several series about planet Earth, will spend two days inside a seethrough chamber at the Eden Project in Cornwall for a new BBC Two series, How Plants Made The World.

The chamber will be full of dozens of plants and he will be entirely dependent on the oxygen they produce to keep him alive, with the stunt designed to demonstrate the importance of plants to human survival as the "lungs of the planet".

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; Eden Bid to Show Importance of Plant Biology

Prof Stewart, who is also professor of geosciences communication at Plymouth Universit...

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