by Carl Safina
Anthias
Anthropocene epoch
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
aragonite
Arctic
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Arctic Ocean
Argentina
Aristotle
Armstrong, Karen
Arnold, Susie
Arrhenius, Svante
arthropods
“Art of Living, The” (Mill)
Atlantic Ocean
North
South
atmosphere. See also carbon dioxide; greenhouse effect; ozone layer
Audubon, John James
auks
Little (Dovekies)
Australia
Austria
automobiles
Bacon, Francis
Badkin, Marilyn
Baffin Bay
Baja California
Bakan, Joel
Bangladesh
Barents, Willem
Barents Sea
Barracuda, Great
Basilius, Leonard
Bass, Striped
crash and recovery of
night fishing for
bats, fruit
bayberry. See Wax Myrtle
beaches
coral sand
erosion of
as nesting ground
bears
Black
Brown (Grizzly)
Polar
salmon and
bees
Beetles, Spruce Bark
Belgium
Belize
Bent, Arthur Cleveland
Berg, Kassi
Beston, Henry
Bhola Island
Bible
Bigeye, Short
Birds of America, The (Audubon)
Birds of America (Forbush)
birds. See also sea and shorebirds; and other specific types
decline of
fledgling
forests and
migrations of
skill in looking for
songs of
bittersweet
blackbirds
Red-wing
blackfish
blennies
blueberries
Bluefish
Bobwhite
Boesky, Ivan
Bogotá
Bonaire
Brahmaputra River
Brazil
breams
British Columbia
brittle stars
Bruno, Giordano
bryozoans
Buddha
Buffalo
buntings
Indigo
Snow
Burg, Ed
Burma
butterfishes
butterflies
Monarch
Mourning Cloak
butterfly fishes
Foureye
Reef
Spotfin
calcium carbonate
California
Campion, Moss
Canada
canneries
Cape Cod
carbon cycle
carbon dioxide
carbon emissions
cardinals
Caribbean
Caribou (Reindeer)
Carter, Jimmy
Catbirds, Gray
Catholic Church
Chadwick, Douglas H.
Champlain, Samuel de
Char, Arctic
Chatham Strait
chemicals
Chichagof Island
chickadees
Chile
China
chipmunks
chlordane
cholera
Christianity
Chromis
Blue
Brown
Chugach National Forest
Chukchi Sea
Cinquefoil, Arctic
civilization. See also ethics and philosophy; industrialization
civil rights
clams
giant
Surf
Clean Air Act (1990)
Clean Water Act (1977)
climate change (global warming)
agriculture and
Alaska and
amphibians and
anecdotes about
animal rights and
Antarctic Peninsula and
Arctic and
Arrhenius on
coral reefs and
costs of
decoupling and
dishonesty about
ice and
international politics and
justice and
migration and
Palau and
Polar Bears and
positive feedbacks and
predictions of, vs. reality
refugees from
salmon and
sea level rise and
Shishmaref and
storms and
threat of
visibility of
Winter Flounders and
Clinton, Bill
cloudberries
clown fish
coal
coasts
coccolithophorids
cod
Polar
common good. See also public interest
commons
community
compassion (sympathy)
Confucius
conservation
consumerism
Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
Cook Inlet
Copa Cabana
copepods
Copernicus, Nicolaus
coral reefs
bleaching and
diversity and
fish and
ocean acidification and
Corals
Acropora genus
Elkhorn
Staghorn
cormorants
Double-crested
corn
cornetfish
Blue-spotted
corporations
Cotton Grass, Arctic
counterculture
crabs
Blue
fiddler
Creeper, Brown (bird)
Creeper, Virginia (vine)
Creole fish
crickets
crossbills
crowberries
crows
Crutzen, Paul
curlews
Eskimo
Hudsonian (Whimbrels)
Long-billed
Czechoslovakia
Daily Alaska Empire
Daly, Herman
dams
damselfish
Bicolor
Darwin, Charles
DDT
“dead zones”
deer
Delaware Bay
democracy
dengue fever
Denmark
Denys, Nicolas
Descartes, René
dieldrin
dinosaurs
diseases
germ theory of
diversity
DNA
Dodge brothers
dolphins
Offshore Bottlenose
Donne, John
Dory, Amanda J.
doves
Dowdeswell, Julian
dowitchers
Long-billed
Short-billed
dragonflies
drought
ducks (sea ducks). See also eiders; Goldeneyes; mergansers; scoters
Bufflehead
Harlequin
Long-tailed
Dunlins
Dust Bowl
eagles
Bald
Earth
age of
basic living matter of
as finite
magnetic field of
movement of plates
uniqueness of
Earth Day
earth
worms
eastern equine encephalitis
ecology
economic crisis of 2008–9
economics. See also consumerism; globalization
bubbles and
capitalism and
democracy and
energy and
externalities and
growth and
happiness and
markets and
need for new
public good and
Economist
ecosystem
decoupling and
economy as subsystem of
importance of, for humanity
Ecuador
education
of girls
eelgrass
eels
egrets
Great
Egypt
eiders
Common
King
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eliot, T. S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emmons, George T.
emperor fish
endangered species
Endangered Species Act (1973)
Endeavor (ship)
energy. See also specific types
flows of
human harnessing of
price of
renewable
salmon as
usage of
Eningowuk, Luci
Enron
environment. See also ecology; ecosystem; pollution
degraded
economics and
environmental laws
environmental movement
Eocene epoch
Eskimos. See Inuit; Inupiat Eskimos
ethanol
ethics and philosophy (morality, values). See also compassion; economics; religion
connecting religion and science and
danger and
ecology as process and
economics and
future and, and conservation
future and, vs. market economics
human place in time and
human relationship with nature and
need for new, to preserve world
old thinking and
price vs. value and
progress and
science and
wastefulness and
Ethiopia
Europe
evolution
externalized costs
extinction
ExxonMobil
Exxon Valdez oil spill
Falalop Island
falcons
Merlin
Peregrine
family
family size
federal flood insurance
federal lands
fertilizers, synthetic
Filefish
Orange
Planehead
Financial Times
fire
First Light (boat)
fish. See also specific types
bird migrations and
coral reefs and
decline of
food chain and
migration of
nutrients and
recovery of
spawning of, and sea levels
tourism and
tropical
fishery management
fish hatcheries
fishing
catch-and-release
commercial
connection and
coral reefs and
horseshoe crabs and
hunting vs.
long-liners
night
overfishing and
regulation of
spear
fishing nets
fishing trawlers
flame retardants
flickers
Yellow-shafted
flounders
Winter
flycatchers
food, wild
food chain
food supply
foraminifera
Forbush, Edward Howe
Ford, Henry
forestry
forests. See also logging
fossil fuels. See also specific types
Fowler, Cary
foxes
Arctic
Franklin, Benjamin
freedom
“to fish”
of speech
Freud, Sigmund
Friedman, Milton
Frigatebird, Magnificent
frogs
African Clawed
Leopard
Spring Peepers
tree
Wood
Fromm, Eric
Fuhlrott, Johann Carl
fulmars
Northern
fur trade
future generations
borrowing from
discounted, in economics
hope for
intergenerational equity and
philosophers and
preserving world for
sacredness of creating
Galápagos islands
Galileo
Ganges River
Gangotri Glacier
gannets
Cape
Northern
Gardner, Todd
Gauguin, Paul
geese
Barnacle
genetic engineering
genetics
genocide
Genuine Progress Indicator
geological time
geothermal energy
Germany
Glacier Bay National Park
glaciers
Global Crop Diversity Trust
globalization
Global Seed Vault
global warming. See climate change
goatfishes
Dwarf
Godwits, Hudsonian
Goldeneyes, Common
golden rule
gorillas
Mountain
government. See also democracy
grackles
grain
Grand Canyon
Great Barrier Reef
Great Gull Island
grebes
Horned
greed
Greeks, ancient
greenhouse effect. See also climate change
greenhouse gases. See also carbon dioxide; methane
Greenland
Green Revolution
grossbeaks
Rose-breasted
gross national product (GNP)
groupers
Gag
Snowy
Guam
Guatemala
guillemots
Pigeon
Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Gulf Stream
gulls
Black-headed
Bonaparte’s
Glaucous
Great Black-backed
Herring
Iceland
Ivory
Laughing
Lesser Black-backed
Mew
Ross’s
Gurnards, Flying
habitat
Haddock
Haeckel, Ernst
Haida people
halibut
Hardin, Garrett
Harding Ice Field
harriers
Northern
Hausa people
Havel, Václav
Hawaii
hawks
Cooper’s
Marsh
Red-tailed
Sharp-shinned
Hays, Helen
health. See also diseases; medicine
Hemlock, Western
hepatitis
herbicides
herons
Great Blue
Little Blue
night
herring
Atlantic
Blueback
Himalayas
Holocene epoch
Holzworth, John
Homo erectus
Honduras
honeyguides
horseshoe crabs
American
Hudson Bay
human beings. See also Anthropocene epoch; civilization
chemical contamination of
evolution of
fear vs. love of nature
impact of climate change on
mind of
nature of, and markets
place of, in time
population of
problem solving and
resilience and fragility of
spirit and
sympathy fundamental to
human rights
Hume, David
hummingbirds
hunger
hunting
hurricanes
hydropower
Ibis, Glossy
ice, melting. See also glaciers; sea ice
ice ages
ice caps
Iceland
Ichthyophonus parasite
Icy Strait
Idechong, Noah
Illich, Ivan
India
Indian Ocean
individual
Indonesia
Indus River
industrialization
infant and child mortality
insects
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International Whaling Commission
Inuit (Eskimos)
Inuk Indian
Inupiat Eskimos
Ireland
Iroquois
irrigation
Italy
Jacks, Bar
jaegers
Long-tailed
Japan
Jatropha curcas oil
Jay, John
jays
Blue
Jefferson, Thomas
Judaism
juncos
justice
Kannigiqtugaapik Hunters and Trappers Organization
Kant, Immanuel
Kayangel atoll
Kenai Fjords National Park
Kestrels, American
Kikuo, Isor
killifish
kingbirds
Eastern
King George Island
Kinglets, Ruby-crowned
Kiribati
kittiwakes
Black-legged
Kloulubak, Nyk
Knots, Red
Kootznoowoo Wilderness
Koran
Korea
Koror
krill
Kuznets, Simon
land ethic
La Paz
Lazy Point. See also migrations; and specific animals and plants
bird species near
Caribbean link with
changes at, over time
as coastal place, and vitality
layout and topography of
night sky at
rhythm of year at
Svalbard link with
view of whole world from
Leopold, Aldo
lichens
life
interconnectedness of
old ethics and new discoveries about
resilience of
sacredness of
strain on support systems for
sun and
life spans
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindblad Expeditions
Lions
lobbying
lobsters
Locke, John
logging
Loofbourrow, Wade
Lookdowns
loons
Common
Red-throated
Lundtren, Stefan
Lyell, Charles
Lyme disease
mackerel
Mahimahi
Majuro atoll
malaria
Maldives
Malthus, Rev. Thomas
Man and Nature (Marsh)
Maples, Red
Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972)
marine mammal rescue
marlin
Marsh, George Perkins
Marshall Islands
martens