The High Seas

Auteur

Olive Heffernan is a science journalist with 20 years' experience as a reporter and an editor. Her writing on ocean science and climate change has been published in Nature, WIRED, Scientific American, National Geographic, New Scientist andBBC Wildlife, among many others. A marine biologist by training, she spent the early part of her career researching Atlantic fish stocks before leaving academia to pursue a career in journalism. She was founding chief editor of Nature Climate Change and chief editor of The Marine Scientist magazine and has also been an online news and opinion editor on climate change at Nature. In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer, and in 2020 received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. She lives by the sea in Ireland with her husband and children.

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TARGET AUDIENCE: Readers of Elizabeth Kolbert, Rachel Carson, Ian Urbina’s The Outlaw Ocean and Helen Scales’ The Brilliant Abyss.

TIMELY: Numerous companies and interest groups currently operate in the ‘lawless’ high seas, including OceanGate, owner of the submarine that imploded attempting to visit the Titanic wreck.

ESSENTIAL PART OF OUR PLANET: The ocean makes up 70% of the surface of our planet, and two-thirds of this are the high seas.

LEADING JOURNALIST WITH SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE: A former marine biologist, Olive Heffernan is a leading reporter on the high seas, and has been published in Nature, National Geographic, WIRED, New Scientist, and more.

EXPOSÉ OF DEEP-SEA MINING:*The High Seas* examines the emerging and increasingly popular deep-sea mining industry, and its numerous, unpredictable risks for the ocean.

BIG, IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: The High Seas tackles essential topics, such as stewardship of High Seas resources, who gets to profit off of them, who is responsible for the environmental damage caused, and how to protect this last frontier.

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE TO THE OUTLAW OCEAN: While Ian Urbina’s recent book focuses on crime and human exploitation on the high seas, Heffernan’s book examines the race to exploit and control the high seas’ resources, and why we need to protect one of the most biodiverse environments on the planet.

UNPRECEDENTED REPORTING: Olive Heffernan’s investigative reporting on the High Seas is unparalleled in its depth and scope.

Contenu

1. The Outer Sea
2. Enter the Twilight Zone
3. The Hunt for Dark Targets
4. Treasures from the Deep
5. The Interventionists
6. A 'Near-Arctic' State
7. The Last Frontier
8. Genes, Drugs and Justice
9. Deep Trouble
10. The Cold Rush
11. Paradise Lost
12. Hope for the High Seas