A "Silent Spring" for oceans--from "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" ("The New York Times") The sea feeds and sustains us, but its future is under catastrophic threat. In this powerful and ambitious book Callum Roberts--one of the world's foremost conservation biologists--tells the story of the [...]

Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller's sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It's a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Islannd w[...]