- The Atlantic Coast
The Illustrated Natural Historyof Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Canada: A Natural History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Canada: A Natural History surveys the varying ecosystems of the northern part of this continent, explaining their characteristics, vividly illustrated by the photographs of Tim Fitzharris.
- Canadian Museum of Nature
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Wildlife Federation
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't
Shipbuilding economics and lack of regulations are getting in the way of a quieter ocean
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
As the ocean drowns in sound, the number of studies showing the harmful effects of noise on marine life has surged. And so, too, have the projections for how loud things might soon become.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
- Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- The End of the Line
How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Five Billion Years of Global Change
A History of the Land
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
From the Big Bang theory to the Web, Five Billion Years of Global Change takes readers through the formation of the world, its oceans and continents, the evolution of the human species, development of agriculture and the growth of international trade. The book will be enjoyed by people interested in the history of the planet and concern for its future.
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
"How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- In search of the unseen: an investigation into plastics in our oceans
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
One of the biggest threats facing marine life is the 'microplastic' particles found in ocean ecosystems from bottom to top of food chains. Just back from a voyage of environmental exploration in the tropical Atlantic sampling the waters to build up a global picture of this ubiquitous pollutant, Ana Stanic writes of the joys and trials of life on the waves, and the need to keep our oceans clean.
- Incredible Mysteries and Legends of the Sea
Resource Type: Book
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
- Outrage!
The Ordeal of Greenpeace
Resource Type: Book
- The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
This book covers aspects of life on and under the sea: terms, oceanography, shipwrecks, shanties, sailors, explorers, maritime inventors, steam, tidal power, marine wildlife, piracy, the East India Company, etc#.To the tune of 2600 entries in dictionary arrangement, with appropriate asterisked cross-references.
- Poisoners of the Seas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
- Das Reich der Natur in Farben
Das Meer
Resource Type: Book
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Saving the Oceans
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- This is Your Ocean on Acid
The Big Picture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
More than 40 percent of the world’s oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas — if any — left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans (and what we deem civilization) have played a primary role in the despoiling of the waters of the earth. The relentless quest for profit, however, has distracted us from the plight of the deep blue sea and how it impacts all forms of life.
- The Tragedy of the Commodity
Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. Longo, Clausen, and Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem.
- The Unnatural History of the Sea
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A history of the commercial fishery and an update on its precarious and untenable siituation. The age old delusion that the sea is an inexhaustible resource has resulted in a fishing arms race that could spell extinction for some species.
- Wake of the Great Sealers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
The story of the Newfoundland men of the neneteenth and early twentieth centuries who set out in flimsy ships to hunt seals on the treacherous North Atlantic ice fields.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- World Resources 1992-93
A Guide to the Global Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
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