May 27, 2008

Sunscreen Is Deadly -- To Coral

Swimmers’ Sunscreen Killing Off Coral

Amazing, and strangely believable.

The death of coral — the lungs of the ocean — is one of the big environmental tragedies of the age. And up to now, maybe, something of a puzzle.


Posted by Michael : May 27, 2008 12:00 AM | Science/Medicine | TechnoLinks
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"The lungs of the ocean"??? Perhaps you mean the lymph nodes of the ocean? The spleen of the ocean? 'Cause I'm having a difficult time analogizing coral to lungs. It just doesn't work.

Posted by: Brett Bellmore at May 27, 2008 07:58 AM
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