by Carl Safina
Martha (last Passenger Pigeon)
Mauger, Sue
McCarty Glacier
Mead, Lake
medicine. See also health
Mekong River
Melville, Herman
Menhaden, Atlantic (bunkers)
mercury
mergansers
Red-breasted
Mesoamerican Reef
metals
methane
Mexico
mice
Michigan Supreme Court
microbes (bacteria)
Micronesia
migrations. See also specific species
abundance and
Alaska and
Antarctica and
breeding and feeding and
connections between places and
horseshoe crab eggs and
human
human impact on
Mexico and
multigenerational, of Monarchs
rhythm of year and
Svalbard and
military
Mill, John Stuart
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
mink
Moby-Dick (Melville)
mockingbirds
Montauk Point
Moose
Morowitz, Harold
Moser, Jefferson
Moses, Marlene
mosquitoes
Muir, John
Mumbai
Mumby, Peter
Murrelets, Marbled
murres
mussels
mysids
Nakayama, Masao
Nalone, Eriko
Nantucket
national parks
Native Americans. See also Inuit; Inupiat Eskimos
Native Claims Settlement Act (1971)
natural gas
Natural History of Selborne, The (White)
Nauru, Republic of
Neanderthal Valley
Neolithic hunters
Nepal
Netherlands
New Orleans
Newton, Isaac
New York Bight
New York City
New York Times, The
New Zealand
Nile River
nitrogen
nitrogen cycle
Nordausland
North Pole
North Sea
Northwestern Glacier
Norway
nuclear energy
nuclear weapons
Nunavut Territory
Nuthatches, Red-breasted
nutrients
ocean reserves
oceans and seas. See also sea ice; sea level
acidification (pH) of
border in, and sharks
changes in
chemicals in, and food chain
chemistry of
climate change and systems of
depletion of
economics and
floor of
nutrients in
sense of place and
spring and
temperatures of
oil (petroleum)
spills
Oliver, Mary
Orangutans
Oregon
orioles
Ospreys
decline and recovery of
migrations of
sea-level rise and
Outermost House, The (Beston)
Ovenbirds
Owen, Richard
Owls
Great Horned
Short-eared
Snowy
oxygen
oystercatchers
American
Black
oysters
ozone layer
Pacific Islanders
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Ocean
Pacioli, Luca
Palau
Palmer Station
Pandora
paper products
Papua New Guinea
Paradise Cove
parrotfishes
Blue
Princess
Queen
Rainbow
Redfin
Striped
Parulas, Northern
Patagonia
PCBs
peas, beach
Peconic River
Peleliu atoll
Penguin Island
penguins
Adélie
African
Chinstrap
Emperor
Gentoo
Magellanic
Northern Rockhopper
permafrost
Permit
Permo-Triassic extinction
pesticides
petrels
Black-bellied Storm-
giant
Wilson’s Storm-
Phalaropes, Red-necked
Philippine Plate
Philippines
philosophy. See ethics and philosophy; religion
phosphorus
photosynthesis
Pigeon, Passenger
Pinchot, Gifford
Pita, Afelee
plankton
plastics
Pleistocene epoch
plovers
Black-bellied
Golden
Piping
Plums, Beach
poison ivy
political campaign contributions
Pollock
Pollock, Jackson
Polloi, Olai
pollution. See also chemicals; and specific pollutants
air
animal-rights activists and
coral reefs and
economics and
Earth Day and
ethics and
polychaetes
Polynesia
Pompano, African
Poppy, Svalbard
porgies
porpoises
Portage Glacier
positive feedbacks
poverty
Powell, Lake
predator-prey relationship
Prince William Sound
Principles of Geology (Lyell)
Pringle, James A.
private property
Prometheus
Proust, Marcel
ptarmigan
pteropods
public interest. See also common good
puffins
Atlantic
Qillaq, James
quality
rabbit
rabbitfishes
Raccoons
Rahmstorf, Stephan
rainforests
rats
ravens
Razorbills
Razorfish, Pearly
Reagan, Ronald
Rebecca
Redstarts, American
regulations
Reindeer. See also Caribou
religion
resources
finite
war and
Revelle, Roger
rice
robins
rockfish
Rock Islands
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Robert
Roosevelt, Theodore
roses
Multiflora
Reindeer
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Russia. See also Soviet Union
Rwanda
sacred
salamanders
Blue-spotted
salmon
Alaskan
Atlantic
Chinook (King)
Chum (Dog)
Coho (Silvers)
decline of
farming of
fishing for
forests and
migrations of
Pink (Humpback)
Sockeye (Red)
Steelhead
warming streams and
Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold)
sandpipers
Least
Pectoral
; Rock
Sanderlings
Semipalmated
Solitary
Spotted
White-rumped
Santiago, Chile
sardines
Saudi Arabia
saxifrages
scallops
Schaaffhausen, Hermann
Schwartz, Brenda
Schwartz, John
Schweitzer, Albert
science
economics and
religion and
study of
theory vs. hypothesis and
truth and
values and
Science
Scitovsky, Tibor
Scotchgard
scoters
Black
Surf
White-winged
Scotland
sea and shorebirds. See also specific types
Arctic and
breeding collapses of
Eskimos and
finding fish by
former abundance of
Glacier Bay and
loss of habitat
migration of
salmon and
sea level rise and
sea cucumbers
sea ice
food chain and
Gulf Stream and
Harp Seal and
Polar Bears and
reflective surface of
sea level and
sea jellies
Sea Lavender
sea level, rising
glaciers and
impact of, on humans
Pacific islands and
Shishmaref and
sea turtles and
waterfront homes and
sea lice
sea lions
Steller
seals
Bearded
elephant
Gray
Harbor
Harp
Hooded
Leopard
monk
recovery of
Ribbon
Ringed
Spotted
Weddel
sea robins
Seaside Goldenrod
sea stars
sea turtles
sea urchins
Long-spined
seaweed
Irish Moss
rockweed
sargassum
sea-worms
“Second Coming, The” (Yeats)
secularism
September, 11, 2001 attacks
Sergeant Majors
Seward, Alaska
sex hormones
Shad
American
Hickory
Shadbush
sharks
Blue
Bull
decline in
Dusky
fishing for
mako
Nurse
Sandbar
Shortfin Mako
Smooth Hammerhead
Thresher
Tiger
Whitetip Reef
shearwaters
shellfish
ocean acidification and
sea ice and
Shinnecock Indians
Shishmaref
shrimp
grass
silversides
sin
siskins
Skang, Hilve
skates
skimmers
Black
skuas
Arctic
South Polar
slavery
Smelt, Rainbow
Smith, Adam
snails
Trochus
snakes
Garter
Hog-nosed
snappers
Schoolmasters
Yellowtail
snipes
Wilson’s
Snow, John
Snow Hill Island
snowmelt
social contract
Social Security
Socrates
soil
solar power
sole
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South America
Southeast Asia
Southern Ocean
South Korea
South Shetland Islands
Soviet Union
sparrows
Chipping
Song
Swamp
White-throated
species. See also diversity; extinction
number of
right of, to exist
spirituality
sponges
spontaneous generation
spruces
Sitka
squid
State of Food Insecurity, The (U.N. report)
Steneck, Bob
Stern, Lord Nicholas
Stikine River
storms
sturgeon
Sudan
Suess, Hans
Summa de Arithmetica (Pacioli)
surgeonfish
Svalbard
swallows
Bank
Barn
Rough-winged
Tree
Sweden
sweetlips
swifts
Swordfish
“Tables Turned, The” (Wordsworth)
Taku Glacier
Taku River
tanagers
Scarlet
taro farming
Tasmania
Tattlers, Wandering
taxes
Teflon
temperatures. See also climate change; oceans, temperatures of
projections of global
Svalbard and
Ternabout (boat)
terns
Antarctic
Arctic
Black
breeding of
Common
endangered colonies of
falcons and
fishing by
Least
lifespan of
migrations of
Roseate
Sooty
theory, hypothesis vs.
Thoreau, Henry David
thrashers
thyroid function
tides
energy in
fish and
flooding and
horseshoe crabs and
sandpipers and
Tigers
Time
Titanic (ship)
Titanoderma
Titmice, Tufted
Tlingit people
Tmetuchl, Perpetua “Tua”
toads
Fowler’s
Tocktoo, Stanley
Tokyo
Tongass National Forest
Tongass Timber Reform Act (1990)
tourism
Towhees, Eastern
toxaphene
“Tragedy of the Commons, The” (Hardin)
Transcendentalists
Triassic Period
triggerfish
Trivelpiece, Sue
Trivelpiece, Wayne
trumpetfish
Tsimshian people
tuna
Albacore
Bigeye
Bluefin
decline of
False Albacore
fishing for
Giant Bluefin
Southern Bluefin
Yellowfin
tundra
Turkey
turkeys
Turnagain Arm fjord
turnstones
Ruddy
turtles, box. See also sea turtles
Tuvalu
Ulithi Atoll
ultraviolet radiation
unicorn fish
United Kingdom
United Nations
Security Council
United States
citizen well-being in
climate change and
population of
resources c
onsumed in
U.S. Bird Banding Laboratory
U.S. Congress
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Fish Commission
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Supreme Court
Uruguay
utilitarianism
Vanuatu
van Woesik, Rob
Venice
Veron, Charlie
vireos
Virgil
voles
vultures
Wall Street (movie)
Walruses
decline and recovery of
war
warblers
Black-and-white
Blackburnian
Black-throated Blue
Black-throated Green
Blue-winged
Canada
Cerulean
Chestnut-sided
Magnolia
migrations of
Nashville
Pine
Prairie
Yellow
Yellow-rumped or Myrtle
Washington State
wastefulness
wastewater
water (freshwater)
bottled
economics and
Green Revolution and
groundwater
human population and
right to own
sea-level rise and
water cycle
water tables
Wax Myrtle (bayberry)
Waxwings, Cedar
weakfish
wealth
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith)
West Nile virus
wetlands
Wetmore, Dr. Alexander
Weyiouanna, Edwin
Weyiouanna, Flora
whales
Beluga
Blue
Bowhead or Greenland Right
decline of
Fin
Gray
Humpback
hunting ban and
hunting of, for oil
Killer
migrations of
Narwhal
Northern Right
wheat
whelks
Mud Dog
Whewell, William
Whip-poor-wills
White, Gilbert
Whitman, Walt
wilderness (wild places)
Alaska and
Antarctica and
importance of
loss of
revisiting
Wild Grizzlies of Alaska, The (Holzworth)
Willets
Wilson, Alexander
wind power
Wirth, Timothy
women, education of
Woodcocks
woodpeckers
Wordsworth, William
World Bank
World Court
World War II
Wrangell
wrasses
Napoleon
wrens
Carolina
Yangtze River
Yao Tandong
Yeats, William Butler
yellowlegs
Greater
Yellow River
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowthroat, Common
Yucatán
Yukon News
zooplankton
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CARL SAFINA is a MacArthur Prize winner and was named by Audubon magazine among the leading one hundred conservationists of the twentieth century. He’s been profiled by the New York Times, on Nightline, and by Bill Moyers. His books and articles have also won him a Pew Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the George B. Rabb Medal, and the John Burroughs Medal, among other distinctions. He is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and the founder of Blue Ocean Institute.
ALSO BY CARL SAFINA
Voyage of the Turtle
Eye of the Albatross
Song for the Blue Ocean
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