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Life on the rocks : building a future for coral reefs
- Title
- Life on the rocks : building a future for coral reefs / Juli Berwald.
- Author
- Berwald, Juli
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Text | Request in advance | QE565 .B465 2022 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 336 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Coral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: wondrously diverse, deeply interconnected, and critically imperiled. They sustain entire ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, human damage, and their own devastating pandemic. Even under stress, they are out-of-this world gorgeous, sending out warning flares in fluorescent bursts of yellow, pink, and indigo. Juli Berwald fell in love with coral reefs as a marine biology student, entranced by their beauty and complexity. While she was concerned by bleaching events and coral disease, she didn't fully understand what a dead reef meant until she experienced one on a dive: barren, decaying, and coated in slime. Deeply alarmed, she traveled the world desperate to discover how to prevent their loss. Life on the Rocks is a meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds. Berwald explores what it means to keep fighting a battle that can't be won, contemplating the inevitable grief of climate change and the beauty of small victories"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Reef futures. Fairy land of fact ; Crazy ideas ; The issue of scale ; Buying excitement -- What keeps a reef together. A badass merger ; Hopeful monsters ; Tiny architects ; Bleaching beginnings ; Bleaching bombardment ; Unmasking immunity ; The holobiont ; Throwing shade -- Florida. Fragmentation ; Outbreak ; Lesion by legion -- Sulawesi. The tragedy of scale ; The scale of tragedy ; A place to restore ; A reef of hope ; A blast in Makassar ; Reef stars ; Galaxy of potential -- Bali. The coral cloud ; The coral farm ; A prayer for the sea -- Dominican Republic. The scale of tourism ; Corals on ice ; A coral named Romeo ; Synchrony of spawn ; Coral kindergarten ; Category 5 -- Washington, D.C. X-tinguished ; The lifeboats ; Reef investments -- Australia, from afar. Cancellation ; Collapse ; Flicker ; Survival genes ; Brightening ; The coin toss.
- ISBN
- 9780593087305
- 0593087305
- 9780593087329 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021026535
- 99991397427
- 40031020814
- OCLC
- on1259292850
- 1259292850
- SCSB-14254880
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries