| Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas Contributor(s): Woodard, Colin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465015719 ISBN-13: 9780465015719 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $21.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2001 Annotation: The Black Sea is already dead. Because of sea-level rise, an entire nation in the South Pacific, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is being washed away. Throughout the Caribbean Sea, vast stretches of coral reef -- called the "rainforests of the ocean" because of their diversity of life -- are dying at increasingly rapid rates. The reefs along the entire north coast of Jamaica are dead. Ocean's End is not about the damage our oceans could suffer (and inflict) in ten or a hundred years, if we're not careful. It's an eyewitness account, in compelling and vivid detail, of the massive world-wide destruction that's already happened. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Science | Earth Sciences - Oceanography - Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration |
| Dewey: 363.7 |
| LCCN: 99051771 |
| Lexile Measure: 1250 |
| Series: Travels Through Endangered Seas |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.74 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Black Sea is already dead. Because of sea-level rise, an entire nation in the South Pacific, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is being washed away. Throughout the Caribbean Sea, vast stretches of coral reef-called the rainforests of the ocean because of their diversity of life-are dying at increasingly rapid rates. The reefs along the entire north coast of Jamaica are dead. Ocean's End is not about the damage our oceans could suffer (and inflict) in ten or a hundred years, if we're not careful. It's an eyewitness account, in compelling and vivid detail, of the massive worldwide destruction that's already happened. |