The acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss examines the existential threats the world's ocean will face in the coming decades and offers cautious optimism for much of t he abundant life within. No matter where we live\, "we are all ocean peopl e\," Helen Scales emphatically observes in her bracing yet hopeful explora tion of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep histo ry\, Scales links past to present to show how the prehistoric ocean ecolog y was already working in ways similar to the ocean of today. In elegant\, evocative prose\, she takes readers into the realms of animals that epitom ize today's increasingly challenging conditions. Ocean life everywhere is on the move as seas warm\, and warm waters are an existential threat to em peror penguins\, whose mating grounds in Antarctica are collapsing. Shark populations-critical to balanced ecosystems-have shrunk by 71 per cent sin ce the 1970s\, largely the result of massive and oft-unregulated industria l fishing.
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