The Carbon Echo

Nature is chaotic. Chaos is bad for business.

Dr. Elena Reyes listens to the ocean. But in the deep, suffocating trench of the Sunda Strait, what she hears is murder.

When the multi-billion-dollar conservation firm Oceanus Regeneration deploys classified acoustic arrays off the coast of Indonesia, the ancient, living intelligence of the reef is silenced. They aren't saving the ecosystem-they are systematically deafening it to optimise their blue-carbon spreadsheets.

With a Category Five super-...