The World Without Us perspective. Chauncey Mabe of the "South Florida Sun-Sentinel" calls the book "one of the most satisfying environmental books of recent memory, one devoid of self-righteousness, alarmism or tiresome doomsaying". Tom Spears of the CanWest News Service concludes "it's more a portrait of ourselves, taken through an odd lens" and "[s]ometimes an obituary is the best biography". The book is categorized as non-fiction science but some commentators emphasize it may be better described as speculative fiction. "The World Without Us" is grounded in environmental and science journalism. Like other environmental books, it discusses the impact that the human race has had
Save Ontario Shipwrecks sank on August 8, 1917, during a summer gale off Amherst Island near Kingston, Ontario The SOS Ohio chapter explored 22 wrecks in Fathom Five National Marine Park in 1986-1987, a popular place to snorkel and scuba dive. The "Sweepstakes", for example, a two-masted schooner which sank in 1885, lies just below the surface in Big Tub harbor. SOS also explored the wreck of the SS "Keystorm" (1909–1910), which struck Scow Island shoal in fog near Alexandria Bay, New York on October 12, 1912. Although SOS generally surveys shipwrecks, chapters also explored The Lost Villages. Guard Lock 21, which was