Making waves : saving our ocean
Bates, Albert K., 1947-2021
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Modern technologies have wreaked havoc on the ocean's biodiversity, which affects not just sea life but all life on the planet. Environmentalist Albert Bates teaches students about currents and tides, the ocean's food pyramid, what is meant by 'blue acceleration', and what causes an im-balanced ecosystem. While numerous human activities compete for the ocean's resources, the two biggest challenges to the ocean's health - overfishing and pollution - are explored in-depth. Learning about the effects of climate change, such as melting ice caps, sea level rise, increased acidity, stronger storms, and loss of coastal vegetation, may be alarming. But Bates delivers hope, highlighting new measures, such as global blue carbon initiatives, mangrove replanting, salt marsh and seagrass protections, cruise ship and trawler curtailment.
Main title:
Making waves : saving our ocean / Albert Bates.
Author:
Bates, Albert K., 1947-, author
Imprint:
North Charleston : Book Publishing Company, 2021.
Collation:
48 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series title:
Planetary solutions ; 2.
Audience:
Juvenile.pym; pyu.
ISBN:
9781939053336 (pbk)
Dewey class:
333.95616363.7551.4
Local class:
363.7
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
EnvironmentOceansEcosystems
BRN:
3005480