Ballantine, Bill, 149–50, 157n, 167, 183–84

Baltic Sea, 38, 118–19

Barents Sea, 32–33, 176

basslets, 42, 213–14

batteries for electric vehicles, 256–57

Beaufort Sea, 48–49, 118

Belize, 44, 201–5, 206–7, 216–17

Biden, Joe, 243

Bilott, Robert, 116

bisphenol A (BPA), 120–21

Blackfish (film), 124

Black Sea, 35, 38

black smokers, 163–65

Blob (heat wave), 187, 218

blubber

buoyancy of, 185

human use of, 134–35

toxin storage in, 111, 113, 114

“blue economy,” 145–46, 227, 227n

bluefin tuna

commercial fishing of, 126, 137–41, 143, 144–45, 171

Japanese food culture and, 139–40

migration patterns, 141–43

population recovery, 136, 141–45

in prehistoric seas, 136–37

sport fishing of, 138, 144–45

Blue Water, White Death (documentary), 80

blue whales, 23, 72, 121, 145–46

BMW, 255

bony fishes, 11, 15, 24–25, 37

Booher, Leslie, 245–46

Boston University, 259

bowheads, 48–50

BPA (bisphenol A), 120–21

Brown University, 259

Cambrian explosion, 6, 7, 10

capelin, 51

Cape Rodney–Okakari Point Marine Reserve, 149–50, 183–84

carbon “blue economy,” 145–46, 227, 227n

carbon dioxide levels, during prehistoric era, 18, 18n

carbon sequestering, 161, 194, 227n

Caribbean Sea

coral reefs of, 201–5, 206–7, 216–17, 224–25

lionfish of, 30–31, 40–41, 42–44

Nassau grouper of, 131–34

octopuses of, 262

in prehistoric era, 19

Sargassum proliferation in, 190–91

sharks of, 35

Carson, Rachel, 112