Carl Safina
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"The first book about the BP disaster by a world-renowned oceanographer, A SEA IN FLAMES examines the environmental and social consequences of the spill from the perspective of those directly affected by it. It will be published on the one-year anniversary of the spill, in April 2011. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is among the greatest environmental catastrophes in U.S. history. Carl Safina's Blowout provides an extraordinary perspective on it. Consisting...
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"Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance....
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"A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity's relationship with the world. When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be a temporary presence. But Alfie's feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. As Alfie grew and gained strength, she became...
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The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist
Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied...
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Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls Amelia, whose life and far-flung flights he describes in fascinating detail. Interwoven with recollections of whalers and famous explorers, Eye of the Albatross probes the unmistakable environmental impact of the encounters between man and marine...
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Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery, probing for truth about the world's changing seas, deftly weaving adventure, science, and political analysis.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 9
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Join Carl Safina to find signs that the famous codfish of New England just might, indeed, be coming back.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 2
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Find out why Carl Safina believes Islam could be a key to ocean conservation in large parts of the world.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 8
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Learn how Trinidad transformed leatherback turtles from shark bait to tourist attraction.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 10
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Learn how lionfish are damaging native species in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic coast.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 3
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Learn how fishermen in Mexico stopped hunting gray whales and developed a lucrative whale-watching co-op.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 7
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Examine the major project, led by the Nisqually Indian tribe, restoring the Nisqually River.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 5
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Join Carl Safina as he goes to sea with some of the last remaining swordfish harpooners.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 1
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See how sharks can thrive while local people still can fish in Belize.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 4
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Join Carl Safina as he goes to sea with some of the last remaining swordfish harpooners.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 6
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Examine the major project, led by the Nisqually Indian tribe, restoring the Nisqually River.
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Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, listeners travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe...
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Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
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[2024]
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"A baby owl is rescued and rehabilitated, and builds her own family, in this tender and wise picture book. In the spring of 2019, ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in little Alfie, a bedraggled Eastern Screech Owl chick who quickly became part of their family. With the Safinas' care and expertise, the little owl grew, learned to hunt on her own, and eventually found her own family in a mate and chicks. As time passed, Carl realized...
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Roaring Book Press
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2019.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
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"Follow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, then travel with him to the Pacific Northwest to track and monitor whales in their ocean home. Along the way, find out more about the interior lives of these giants of land and sea--how they play, how they fight, and how they communicate with one another, and sometimes with us, too. Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about...