A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence, the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness, and what it tells us about the future of life on Earth.

This Is Planet Earth is dedicated to the wonders of Planet Earth, the most amazing place in the known Universe.

Despite being one of the most unique lakes in America - a natural body of water formed during the New Madrid earthquakes in the early nineteenth century - Reelfoot Lake is relatively understudied. Johnson's book is part personal remembrance, part guidebook, and part cautionary tale on river and wetland ecology, conservation, and land management.

This textbook is a complete overhaul, rewrite, and expansion of Hugh Rollinson's highly successful 1993 book. Pease and Rollinson's new book brings the subject completely up to date with modern techniques and data analysis. It will be invaluable for all graduate students, researchers, and professionals using geochemical techniques.

'A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!' Bill McKibben 'A moving elegy and cri de coeur for our world's wetlands. I learned something new - and found something amazing - on every page' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

This book is a product of the joint JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study)/LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone) Continental Margins Task Team which was established to facilitate continental margins research in the two projects.

The shocking inside story of the fight to halt climate change over the past twenty-five years by a world-renowned scientist.