Murray Bookchin ( / ˈ b ʊ k t ʃ ɪ n / ; January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006 ) was an American thinker about society, writer, speaker, historian, and political philosopher. He was influenced by the works of G. W.
Barry Commoner was born on May 28, 1917, and died on September 30, 2012. He was an American biologist who studied cells, a college teacher, and a politician. He was an important scientist who studied the environment and helped start the modern environmental movement.
Barry Commoner was born on May 28, 1917, and died on September 30, 2012. He was an American scientist, teacher, and politician. He played an important role in the study of the environment and helped start the modern environmental movement.
Edward Osborne Wilson was born on June 10, 1929, and died on December 26, 2021. He was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist who helped create the field of sociobiology. Wilson was born in Alabama and showed an early interest in nature.
Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life is a book written by biologist E. O. Wilson in 2016.
Edward Osborne Wilson ForMemRS (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist who created the field of sociobiology. He was born in Alabama and showed an early interest in nature. At age seven, he was partially blinded in a fishing accident.
RV Calypso was once a British Royal Navy minesweeper that was changed into a research ship for ocean scientist Jacques Cousteau. It had a mobile laboratory for studying the ocean underwater. The ship was heavily damaged in 1996 and was supposed to get a full renovation from 2009 to 2011, but this work was never completed.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, scientist who studied the ocean, movie maker, and writer. He helped create the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung. This invention allowed him to make some of the first underwater documentaries.
Mission Blue is a 2014 documentary film that follows Dr. Sylvia Earle as she works to protect the ocean from threats such as pollution, overfishing, and climate change. It won the 2015 News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Editing – Documentary and Long Form.
Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, writer, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large (formerly Explorer in Residence) since 1998. Earle was the first chief scientist of the U.S.