Gangly Tristan Hunt joins others who have special talents in the water at a special summer camp in the Florida Keys, but soon he must put fun and games aside to help respond to distress calls coming in from ocean animals.

"What if we could predict natural disasters? What do scientists know about them already, and what do they wish they knew? Dangerous Earth explores for general readers the state of the sciences that investigate volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes,landslides, rip currents, and - the deadliest hazard of all - climate change and its likely local effects. Each chapter takes the reader on a tour of our understanding of one of these hazards, beginning...