The River in the Sea: How the Gulf Stream System Made (and Is Unmaking) Our World

A wondrous journey along the greatest ocean current—classic travel writing and celebrations of natural wonders under threat

Our world is a freak of nature. The finely balanced arrangement of ice at the poles and heat in the tropics is a once in a billion-year miracle of physics - made and sustained by the cooling system of the planet: ocean currents. The Gulf Stream system moves more water than all the freshwater rivers of the earth combined and four hundred times more energy than the United...