Don’t flush the fish
John Whitfield: The End of the Coral Reef?, 3 July 2008
Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise
by Steve Jones.
Abacus, 242 pp., £8.99, July 2008,978 0 349 12147 5 Show More
by Steve Jones.
Abacus, 242 pp., £8.99, July 2008,
A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End
by J.E.N. Veron.
Belknap, 289 pp., £22.95, February 2008,978 0 674 02679 7 Show More
by J.E.N. Veron.
Belknap, 289 pp., £22.95, February 2008,
“... their habitat disappearing, as warmer climates rise up to engulf them. And Steve Jones and J.E.N. Veron warn that climate change may well bring about the end of coral reefs – if overfishing, disease, invading species and pollution don’t get them first. The surface waters of the open tropical ocean are poor in nutrients and almost lifeless because the warm ... ”
