She likes to focus on the big picture and on how the planet’s systems work. Her most recent full-length book is Sea Sick: The global ocean in crisis, which is an international best seller and won the U.S.-based Grantham Prize for environmental reporting. She has done research with scientists in the field on all seven continents and many parts of the global ocean. Antarctica was a particular highlight. She worked for 17 years in daily journalism, first at the Financial Post as a banking and real estate reporter and then at The Globe and Mail writing about social statistics, the West and earth sciences.