Book Description
Discusses the world's oceans, the animals that live in them, and the threats they face from overfishing, pollution, and global warming.
Author : Ben Denne
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Children's literature, English
ISBN : 9780439409070
Discusses the world's oceans, the animals that live in them, and the threats they face from overfishing, pollution, and global warming.
Author : Matthew Oldham
Publisher : Usborne
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2019-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780794543983
"An informative picture book for young children that explores the amazing world beneath the waves. Prepare to explore kaleidoscopic coral reefs, frozen Arctic waters and the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean floor."
Author : Deborah Rowan Wright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 022654270X
A counterintuitive and compelling argument that existing laws already protect the entirety of our oceans—and a call to understand and enforce those protections. The world’s oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the immensity of these challenges and of the oceans themselves, we might wonder what more can be done to stop their decline and better protect the sea and marine life. Such widespread environmental threats call for a simple but significant shift in reasoning to bring about long-overdue, elemental change in the way we use ocean resources. In Future Sea, ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Rowan Wright provides the tools for that shift. Questioning the underlying philosophy of established ocean conservation approaches, Rowan Wright lays out a radical alternative: a bold and far-reaching strategy of 100 percent ocean protection that would put an end to destructive industrial activities, better safeguard marine biodiversity, and enable ocean wildlife to return and thrive along coasts and in seas around the globe. Future Sea is essentially concerned with the solutions and not the problems. Rowan Wright shines a light on existing international laws intended to keep marine environments safe that could underpin this new strategy. She gathers inspiring stories of communities and countries using ocean resources wisely, as well as of successful conservation projects, to build up a cautiously optimistic picture of the future for our oceans—counteracting all-too-prevalent reports of doom and gloom. A passionate, sweeping, and personal account, Future Sea not only argues for systemic change in how we manage what we do in the sea but also describes steps that anyone, from children to political leaders (or indeed, any reader of the book), can take toward safeguarding the oceans and their extraordinary wildlife.
Author : Ian Urbina
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0451492951
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category : Marine animals
ISBN : 9781406391015
"Spectacular ... you can almost smell the surf between the pages." The Times "Five stars - if you take only one picture book away this summer, make it this." The TelegraphFrom Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton, the multi award-winning team behind Tiny and Lots, comes a spellbinding collection of poems about the oceans of the world and their shores. With this book, children can swim alongside dolphins and flying fish, pore over rockpools and sail from pole to pole and back, learning about everything from phosphorescence and plankton to manta rays and puffins - all in the comfort of their bedroom. Emily Sutton's exquisite watercolours capture the breathless excitement of a child's first glimpse of the sea, the majesty of ancient trading ships and the sheer, staggering wonder of the humpback whale. The perfect companion to international bestsellers A First Book of Nature and A First Book of Animals, this book is sure to enthral and inspire readers of all ages."Ravishing ... the perfect companion to a seaside holiday" The Sunday Times "Just dive in and enjoy" Sunday Express
Author : Matthew Oldham
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781474938235
An informative picture book for young children that explores the amazing world beneath the waves. Prepare to explore kaleidoscopic coral reefs, frozen Arctic waters and the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean floor. Lots to look at and talk about. Written in a simple, accessible style, full of rich vocabulary. Internet links to regularly reviewed websites with homework help, virtual tours, reconstructions, games and quizzes. Part of a series which also includes My Very First Animals Book (978147492263), My Very First Dinosaurs Book (9781409564164), My Very First Our World Book (9781474917896) and other titles.
Author : Mack
Publisher : Mack's World of Wonder
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781605373546
Discusses the importance of water to planet Earth, including what animals live in water and where the most beautiful bodies of water are.
Author : Matthew OLDHAM
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2017-06
Category : Biotic communities
ISBN : 9781474931717
An informative picture book that introduces geography and planet Earth to young children. Fascinating facts about the world's deep blue oceans, dusty deserts and lush rainforests are delivered in a friendly and approachable way. Illustrations:Full colour throughout
Author : W. Sean Chamberlin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill College
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780073016542
'Exploring the World Ocean' presents oceanography as a systems science, aimed at understanding the world ocean as a single, interdependent system of interacting geological, physical, chemical and biological processes. Also emphasized is the idea that ocea
Author : Fiona Patchett
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2020-03-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781474969147
This book is packed with beautifully illustrated under the sea scenes, from a bright coral reef to an icy cold Polar ocean. Fill the scenes with transfers of fascinating fish and sea creatures, using a pencil or ballpoint pen to press them on. Beautiful, colourful illustrations. Over 200 transfers to press on. Lots of fascinating facts about the different creatures that live under the sea.