Transforming the Global Biosphere

Includes our global water crisis, satellite monitoring of global forest cover, polluters can’t hide, marine foreign species introduction underground fires, a hidden cause of atmospheric pollution and global warming, fiber, not forests, paper from clay, paper from pond scum, world’s fastest-growing trees, the test-tube forest, plastic lumber, tropical rainforests: our precious resources, clear cutting the ocean floors, wasteful fishing practices, size matters, other size benefits, coral reefs our undersea rainforests, rigs to reefs, artificial designer reefs, new technologies for coral reef restoration, electric reefs, reef-fish laundering, bioprospecting the ocean depths, basic strategies for enlightened global resource management.