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Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. Her work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic, Salon, Scientific American and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, Olive spent a number of years with Nature covering climate change, including as first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change. In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer and received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2024, she was funded by the Pulitzer Centre to report on ocean conservation in Europe. Her first book THE HIGH SEAS: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean was published in 2024. She lives by the sea in Ireland.
Powerful and urgent reportage. A must-read -- Gaia Vince Profoundly informed, passionately written, thrillingly adventurous...a masterful study in natural history -- Philip Ball An illuminating portrait of a world we rarely see and barely understand -- Robert Kunzig The essential guide to the high seas, by someone who has done more than almost anyone on earth in the last few years to understand the problems we face, and the solutions available. -- Will McCallum, director of Greenpeace UK On the surface the seas roll on as always. But below, much is changing. And much more is at stake as humans seek plunder and profit beyond the reach of nations. In The High Seas, Olive Heffernan ably takes us into the history, the present, and the future of this largest and most mysterious realm of the planet. -- Carl Safina Heffernan's reporting reveals our human imprint everywhere in the oceans, from the surface to the seafloor, by deciphering the geopolitics, economics, environmental sciences, and morality behind our use of the high seas -- Helen Rozwadowski, author of Vast Expanses The best introduction I have ever read to the biological, technical, and institutional issues connected with the High Seas and the exploitation of its resources. A gem of a book! -- Daniel Pauly
