Ocean State Libraries

An alarming rise in the world's sea levels--much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt--sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power--and in the process displace as many as a billion people. A rare alloy unlike...

"Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic,...

"In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks...

"Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic,...

A history of climate change describes the dramatic evolution and stabilization of the oceans before the rise of humans approximately 6,000 years ago, tracing a significant rise in global temperatures since 1860 and how a rising sea level is affecting world populations. By the best-selling author of The Great Warming.

"As climate change continues to affect the earth, issues such as ice caps melting and sea levels rising have been in the spotlight more often. These changes in geography negatively impact humans, sea creatures, and other parts of the natural world. Through the well-researched main text on this science curriculum topic, readers are exposed to these effects of climate change and what is being done to keep the problems from getting worse. A helpful glossary,...

"Rapidly increasing sea levels are endangering coastal wildlife and contributing to major floods worldwide. In the future, some coastal cities may even be underwater. But what is behind this dramatic shift? Learn all about the role climate change plays in rising ocean levels and what effects this will have on our watery planet."--Amazon.com.

The costliest hurricanes in U.S. history have all occurred in the past two decades--but who bears the financial brunt of these monster storms? It is no accident that five of the most destructive hurricanes in the last hundred years have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($161 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($71 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). And with more property than ever in harm's way, the seas rising, and the planet...

"In this era of climate change and sea level rise - How can coastal cities around the world innovate and connect to the oceans they border? Professor Tim Beatley chair of Urban Planning of the University of Virginia explores our connections to the sea in Baltimore, San Francisco, and Miami in the US - and coastal innovations to combat sea level rise in Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands"--Container.