1. Canada: A Natural History
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1988
   Canada: A Natural History surveys the varying ecosystems of the northern part of this continent, explaining their characteristics, vividly illustrated by the photographs of Tim Fitzharris.
2. Canada's Aquatic Environments
   Resource Type: Website
   Information on habitiats, plants, and animals.
3. Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't
   Shipbuilding economics and lack of regulations are getting in the way of a quieter ocean
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   As the ocean drowns in sound, the number of studies showing the harmful effects of noise on marine life has surged. And so, too, have the projections for how loud things might soon become.
4. Connexions Digest
   Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1989
   
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1990
   
6. Connexions Digest
   Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1991
   
7. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1992
   
8. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
9. Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
10. Coral Reefs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    All around the world, much of the world's marine biodiversity face threats from human and activities as well as natural. It is feared that very soon, many reefs could die off.
11. Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
12. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
13. The End of the Line 
    How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
14. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
15. The Gentle Subversive 
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision.
16. How to Save the World
    Strategy for World Conservation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    "How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
17. In search of the unseen: an investigation into plastics in our oceans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    One of the biggest threats facing marine life is the 'microplastic' particles found in ocean ecosystems from bottom to top of food chains. Just back from a voyage of environmental exploration in the tropical Atlantic sampling the waters to build up a global picture of this ubiquitous pollutant, Ana Stanic writes of the joys and trials of life on the waves, and the need to keep our oceans clean.
18. Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
19. Poisoners of the Seas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
20. Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
21. The Rising Seas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
22. Saving the Oceans
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
23. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    
24. State of the World's Oceans
    New Internationalist January/February 2007
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at the how the world's ocean is being destroyed and its effects on the earth.
25. This is Your Ocean on Acid
    The Big Picture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    More than 40 percent of the world’s oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas — if any — left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans (and what we deem civilization) have played a primary role in the despoiling of the waters of the earth. The relentless quest for profit, however, has distracted us from the plight of the deep blue sea and how it impacts all forms of life.
26. The Tragedy of the Commodity
    Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. Longo, Clausen, and Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem.
27. The Unnatural History of the Sea
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A history of the commercial fishery and an update on its precarious and untenable siituation. The age old delusion that the sea is an inexhaustible resource has resulted in a fishing arms race that could spell extinction for some species.
28. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism 
    A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
29. The World Without Us 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
    

Experts on Oc‚anos in the Sources Directory

1. American Museum of Natural History
2. International Hydrographic Organization
3. International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
4. Pacific Islands Forum
5. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
6. World Meterological Organization