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Carl Safina



Carl Safina, PhD, is an American author, ecologist, and MacArthur Fellow. He writes about the relationship between human beings and the natural world. He founded the nonprofit Safina Center, whose mission is to “advance the case for Life on Earth by fusing scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action.”

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‘We Know What the Solutions Look Like. All We Have to Do Is Grasp Them’

Ellen MacArthur, Mya-Rose ‘Birdgirl’ Craig, Chris Packham, Ridhima Pandey and other environmental voices on their hopes and fears for biodiversity in the next 10 years

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The Days of ‘Let’s See What Happens’ Are Over

More extreme weather is happening more often, and we are its cause.

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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel | Carl Safina | Talks at Google

Award-winning author and renowned ocean conservationist Carl Safina discusses his new book “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel.

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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long Island and on his travels to the four points of the compass.

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The Real Case for Saving Species: We Don’t Need Them, But They Need Us

Conservationists argue that humans need to save species in order to save ourselves. The truth is we could survive without wild species—but they can’t survive without us, and the moral argument for protecting them and the beauty they bring to the world is overwhelming.

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Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival

Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina’s guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls Amelia, whose life and far-flung flights he describes in fascinating detail.

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Songs of the Humpback Whales

This essay is adapted from Carl Safina’s book, Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2020).

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A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout

Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation.

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Mother Culture

For sperm whales, family is paramount

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The Secret Call of the Wild: How Animals Teach Each Other to Survive

Cultural knowledge, passed from animal to animal, is key to how species adapt to change in the world around them

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