Ocean Climate

A new adult novel from New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, in which a woman rediscovers the mythical island she stumbled upon as a child—and the man she once met who apparently hasn’t aged. The night Clay Lockhart’s wife dies, a violent storm tears their home—and the eight...

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...

Our solar system is a dynamic arena where asteroids careen off course and solar winds hurl charged particles across billions of miles of space. Yet we seldom consider how these events, so immense in scale, influence our fragile blue planet: Earth. In Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot...

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to...

Ocean and Coastal Conservation delivers rigorous analysis of the science, governance, and finance required to protect marine ecosystems — from marine protected areas and fisheries management to blue economy finance and the landmark 2026 BBNJ Agreement. - Understand why 8.4 percent of the ocean is nominally protected but only 3.2 percent is effectively managed, and what determines where protection works - Analyze the ecological design principles behind marine protected area effectiveness — size, age, connectivity, and governance architecture - Discover how USD 35 billion annually in ...

A Financial Times Best Science Book of 2023 A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters. All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water...

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of...

2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER "Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and...

Your weather app says today is the warmest March 14th on record. A headline reports Arctic sea ice at a new winter low. Someone at dinner mentions a "2100 projection" and you nod, change the subject, and quietly realize you do not know the machinery behind any of those words. You are not alone. Most adults can name the symptoms of a changing climate but cannot trace the physical chain that connects a molecule of carbon dioxide to a rising thermometer to a retreating glacier. This guide closes that gap. In plain, visual language for the busy reader, it builds a complete mental model of the ...

The natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds. “Moss is a captivating storyteller.” —Wall Street Journal For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies...

** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Gripping... the wildlife is so fantastical that the images on the page feel like works of the imagination.' Evening Standard 'THIS IS THE STORY OF OUR OCEAN AND WE MUST WRITE ITS NEXT CHAPTER TOGETHER. FOR IF WE SAVE THE SEA, WE SAVE OUR WORLD. AFTER A...

This "truly essential" audiobook will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood)—and explains how we can solve them. It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled 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...

The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year "...Henry Gee presents a pithy, fascinating account of the stages of biological evolution. He's a deliberate, engaged narrator whose slow pacing will require adaptation. This and creative background music and sound effects (dinosaur sounds?) create a...

"...Damron's able narration carries listeners through this arduous journey with a steady tone that lightens at moments of joy and becomes grave at times of deep sadness and loss. While the tale has all of the trappings of a great adventure novel, neither the author nor Damron let listeners...

Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith—a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer—shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed. Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial...

The Yurok Tribe and an Indigenous family share a moving multigenerational story of their fight to undam the Klamath river—the largest river restoration project in history—and save the planet. Includes exclusive audio content! The Water Remembers is the story of Indigenous resistance and an...

In June 2024, the paleoceanographer Eleanor Hartley confirmed that the global sea-surface temperature anomaly of the previous year was substantially warmer than the discipline had anticipated. She had spent forty years reading the climate record of the tropical Pacific. She had not seen a number of that magnitude before. She had not expected to see one in her remaining professional lifetime. The Pacific Is Wrong is what she wrote in response. A senior figure in tropical Pacific paleoceanography, Hartley has spent her career on the deep-time climate record that allows the discipline to ...

“A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish...

Lungs of the Earth: The Hidden Story of the Forests, Oceans, and Living Systems That Keep Our Planet Alive is an informative, engaging, and science-based exploration of the natural systems that make life on Earth possible. Discover why the Amazon rainforest is called the "Lungs of the Earth," the surprising truth about global oxygen production, and the vital role of phytoplankton, forests, wetlands, mangroves, peatlands, coral reefs, and countless other ecosystems in regulating Earth's climate and atmosphere. Learn how photosynthesis, the oxygen cycle, the carbon cycle, biodiversity, and ...