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The Atlas of Disappearing Places

Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
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A beautiful and engaging guide to global warming's impact around the world. Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances, most of us don't have a... Read More
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A beautiful and engaging guide to global warming's impact around the world

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A beautiful and engaging guide to global warming's impact around the world.

Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances, most of us don't have a clear sense of how the interconnected crises in our ocean are affecting the climate system, food webs, coastal cities, and biodiversity, and which solutions can help us co-create a better future.

Engaging and...enraging (San Francisco Chronicle), The Atlas of Disappearing Places depicts twenty locations across the globe under siege from four different climate impacts. Each chapter paints a portrait of an existential threat in a particular place, weaving together contemporary stories and speculative 'future histories' with beautiful, full-colour illustrations to offer suggestions for practical ways to reduce climate impact (Foreword Reviews).

As the effects of climate change continue to become clearer, and the time to reverse it slips further away, The Atlas of Disappearing Places is a striking and deeply researched work of art and environmental activism (BookPage) that will inspire readers to take on the greatest fight of our lives.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781620979839

Publisher: The New Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 October 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The New Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 700g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Christina Conklin is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work investigates the intersection of natural systems and belief systems, often using the ocean as both site and metaphor. Her essays, exhibitions, and installations consider our cultural responses to the intersecting ecological and social crises of our time. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and has exhibited internationally. She is currently working with thought leaders and activists around the world to help communities create regenerative cultural systems. She lives with her husband and two children in Half Moon Bay, California.

Marina Psaros is a sustainability expert and has led climate action programs across public, private, and nonprofit organisations for over a decade. She isone of the creators of The King Tides Project, an international community science and education initiative. An amateur cartographer and ocean advocate, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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