The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Ocean acidification increases the cost of calcification by reducing the number of carbonate ions availab ...

cope with massively fluctuating conditions? Well, it’s like that when you ramp up CO 2 .” * ...

back into the air that has been sequestered for tens—in most cases hundreds—of millions ...

CHAPTER VII DROPPING ACID Acropora millepora Half a world away from Castello Aragonese, One Tree Island s ...

was in the middle of the day, on jagged coral rubble. The turtle tried to dig a hole with her back ...

decided that every team should leave a record of its visit on the cabin walls. GETTING TO THE CORE I ...

from the rims of extinct underwater volcanoes—he borrowed more or less wholesale from a Russian na ...

Coral polyps. Like sea urchins and starfish and clams and oysters and barnacles, reef-building corals have maste ...

This coevolutionary venture has been under way for many geologic epochs. Researchers now believe it ...

having coined the term “ocean acidification.” He became interested in the subject in the late nineteen-nineties ...

aspect of the system, Caldeira is, at any given moment, working on four or five disparate projects. He part ...

itself. Since corals like light but can’t survive long exposure to the air, they tend to grow as hig ...

stars were so bright they appeared to be straining out of the sky. For a brief moment I felt I u ...

Biosphere 2 officially collapsed in 1995, and Columbia University took over the management of the building. ...

of corals, which were attached to little tiles, would be periodically lifted out of the water and weighed. ...

launched their own studies. These, too, confirmed Langdon’s discovery: reef-building corals are sensitive t ...

Some of the scientists, who had dived all over—in the Philippines, in Indonesia, in the Caribbean, and in the South ...

what’s called the thermal structure of the water column, and it’s why tropical waters are often so beautifully ...

corals and tabulate corals were only distantly related to today’s scleractinian corals, and both ord ...

reef-building corals lead double lives. Each individual polyp is an animal and, at the same time, ...