Sylvia A. Earle

Meet sea squirts and sea lilies, hermit crabs, and many more creatures that live in the sea.

An underwater explorer takes a tour of the ocean and introduces such fish as the damselfish, red lipped batfish, and brown goby

"Approaching this vast and multifaceted subject with profound passion and a refreshing approach, ocean scientist and diver Ellen Prager, along with internationally renowned underwater explorer Sylvia Earle, crafts a comprehensive and understandable survey of the ocean's past, present, and future. Leading readers on a fantastic undersea voyage spanning 4.5 billion years of natural history - from the Precambrian through the present - The Oceans reveals the nature and science of everything from waves, tides and sea level change, to hurricanes, El Nino, and global warming, along with marine sediments, plate tectonics, and the astonishing myriad of life that populates the ocean. In a discussion of the very latest discoveries in marine science - a field that combines oceanography, biology, geology, chemistry, physics, meteorology, and trailblazing underwater exploration - we are led into the interworkings of the sea and the increasingly complex relationship between humans and the ocean."--BOOK JACKET.

El 20 de abril de 2010 una explosión hizo estallar la plataforma petrolífera Deepwater Horizon en el Golfo de Mexico, y vertió más de 100 millones de galones de crudo que meses más tarde seguían asolando la vida vegetal y animal del mar. Partiendo de los efectos a largo plazo ‫de este devastador escape, la legendaria oceanógrafa Sylvia A. Earle examina un ecosistema global que se encuentra al borde de una crisis medioambiental irreversible a menos que actuemos inmediatamente

"... [L]egendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a global ecosystem on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis unless we act immediately. A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how the past 50 years of destructive--and ever accelerating--oceanic change threaten the very existence of life on Earth." -- back cover.