‘Butterflies of the Sea’ The Darkening Sea by Elizabeth Kolbert
The environmental writer of the New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert, wrote a disturbing article of the state of the oceans. Victoria Fabry, an oceanographer at California State University at San Marcos has been studying Pteropods which are zooplankton, a form of snail, also called “butterflies” of the ocean. The ocean absorbs about half of our carbon emissions, causing acidification threatening shell calcification….(See entire article.)
