The reef at the end of the world

Flippers first, I splash into the year 2100. Graduate student Hannah Barkley and I are swimming in Nikko Bay, among the Rock Islands of Palau. Here the warm blue-green water resembles naturally what the tropical Pacific will be like by the end of the century, as carbon emissions take an ever-greater toll on the seas. It should be a window into a dire, climate-change future. But things here look fine. In Palau's Nikko Bay and a few other acidified Rock Island sites, life appears to be shrugging off a sneak preview of the coral-reef apocalypse. Now Barkley, her boss Cohen, and the rest of the team are trying to answer a few pressing questions. Are the corals really okay? And if so, how? Moreover, what does that mean?

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Sokol, Joshua (Joshua Daniel)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Marcia Bartusiak.

• Comparative Media Studies.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101365

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