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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
The story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us all
Coral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they're thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean's surface burst with color and life. They sustain bountiful ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. Corals themselves are evolutionary marvels that build elaborate limestone formations from their collective skeletons, broker symbiotic relationships with algae, and manufacture their own fluorescent sunblock. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, damage by humans, and a devastating pandemic.
Juli Berwald fell in love with coral reefs as a marine biology student, entranced by their beauty and complexity. Alarmed by their peril, she traveled the world to discover how to prevent their loss. She met scientists and activists operating in emergency mode, doing everything they can think of to prevent coral reefs from disappearing forever. She was so amazed by the ingenuity of these last-ditch efforts that she joined in rescue missions, unexpected partnerships, and risky experiments, and helped rebuild reefs with rebar and zip ties.
Life on the Rocks is an inspiring, lucid, meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds. As she also attempts to help her daughter in her struggle with mental illness, Berwald explores what it means to keep fighting a battle whose outcome is uncertain. She contemplates the inevitable grief of climate change and the beauty of small victories.
Coral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they're thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean's surface burst with color and life. They sustain bountiful ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. Corals themselves are evolutionary marvels that build elaborate limestone formations from their collective skeletons, broker symbiotic relationships with algae, and manufacture their own fluorescent sunblock. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, damage by humans, and a devastating pandemic.
Juli Berwald fell in love with coral reefs as a marine biology student, entranced by their beauty and complexity. Alarmed by their peril, she traveled the world to discover how to prevent their loss. She met scientists and activists operating in emergency mode, doing everything they can think of to prevent coral reefs from disappearing forever. She was so amazed by the ingenuity of these last-ditch efforts that she joined in rescue missions, unexpected partnerships, and risky experiments, and helped rebuild reefs with rebar and zip ties.
Life on the Rocks is an inspiring, lucid, meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds. As she also attempts to help her daughter in her struggle with mental illness, Berwald explores what it means to keep fighting a battle whose outcome is uncertain. She contemplates the inevitable grief of climate change and the beauty of small victories.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published April 5, 2022
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Juli Berwald
16 books62 followersJuli Berwald received her PhD in ocean science from the University of Southern California. A science textbook writer and editor, she has contributed to many science textbooks and written for The New York Times, Nature, National Geographic, and Slate, among other publications. She lives in Austin with her husband and their son and daughter.
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April 18, 2022
Life on the Rocks is consuming. The science, social and economic issues, and the personal narratives surrounding her own family’s struggle with mental health all blend together in an improvement from Juli Berwald’s previous, but already good, book on Jellyfish.
While some early portions might be a little science heavy and lead to feeling overwhelmed with technical information, the book slows down toward the middle which allows readers to piece together the information along with new and expanded views of the issue from across the world.
More to say on my tiktok review. Thank your Riverhead for sending me this copy for review.
While some early portions might be a little science heavy and lead to feeling overwhelmed with technical information, the book slows down toward the middle which allows readers to piece together the information along with new and expanded views of the issue from across the world.
More to say on my tiktok review. Thank your Riverhead for sending me this copy for review.
May 19, 2022
As with Berwald’s last book, Spineless, Life on the Rocks ties together scientific fact with an autobiographical narrative to present the plight of corals in a much more personal and personable light than most books about the future of a species on the decline. She is really able to infuse so much hope into a book that could have been so bleak, and the way that concepts are communicated throughout the story presents them in such an understandable and accessible way.
However, unlike her last book, something about Berwald’s sophomore popular science book felt a little off to me from the beginning. There is something inherently a little iffy to me when it comes to recording stories of environmental tragedies that happen in under-resourced countries from an outsider perspective, but there were times in this book that felt genuinely voyeuristic that were not those moments. A large focus of Life on the Rocks revolves around Berwald’s daughter’s experience with OCD at the time of her writing this book. And while I think that it’s absolutely fair for her to say that this affected her, there were moments that felt personal to her daughter during her mental health crisis being shared with the public that felt like they broached a line that should have been a story for her daughter, and not her, to tell. Many stories of mental health told from an outside perspective often center the writer’s feelings over the person dealing with mental illness, and it did not feel good to see this story be told in the way that it was.
I truly did enjoy this book, but what really got on my nerves was the moment towards the end of the book, when the author reached a chapter wherein she connects her research on coral reefs and climate justice to the events of 2020. Berwald cites many of the Black AF In STEM hashtags that went viral without crediting the Black scientists who made that all possible— a huge effort across many fields of scientists, researchers, and communicators all over the world. In other chapters, white folks were often name-dropped, but major players in these massive movements for greater representation in STEM are referred to simply as “a herpetologist” or “biologists,” rather than their names. I was annoyed at first, mainly because I have many friends or mutual friends who spent countless volunteered hours to make these events and social media pushes come to life, but then I thought back to how Berwald rarely credited grad students by name in her research, instead opting to only credit or cite their funders or lab directors. To be perfectly honest, this really doesn’t sit right with me, and took away a lot of the wonder and excitement that I felt while reading this book in early chapters.
I think that Berwald really is a talent in the popular science genre— she wrote two fabulous books that bring wonder and make learning about the oceans accessible to a general audience, which is a hard thing to do with scientific nonfiction sometimes— but this book missed the mark for me.
However, unlike her last book, something about Berwald’s sophomore popular science book felt a little off to me from the beginning. There is something inherently a little iffy to me when it comes to recording stories of environmental tragedies that happen in under-resourced countries from an outsider perspective, but there were times in this book that felt genuinely voyeuristic that were not those moments. A large focus of Life on the Rocks revolves around Berwald’s daughter’s experience with OCD at the time of her writing this book. And while I think that it’s absolutely fair for her to say that this affected her, there were moments that felt personal to her daughter during her mental health crisis being shared with the public that felt like they broached a line that should have been a story for her daughter, and not her, to tell. Many stories of mental health told from an outside perspective often center the writer’s feelings over the person dealing with mental illness, and it did not feel good to see this story be told in the way that it was.
I truly did enjoy this book, but what really got on my nerves was the moment towards the end of the book, when the author reached a chapter wherein she connects her research on coral reefs and climate justice to the events of 2020. Berwald cites many of the Black AF In STEM hashtags that went viral without crediting the Black scientists who made that all possible— a huge effort across many fields of scientists, researchers, and communicators all over the world. In other chapters, white folks were often name-dropped, but major players in these massive movements for greater representation in STEM are referred to simply as “a herpetologist” or “biologists,” rather than their names. I was annoyed at first, mainly because I have many friends or mutual friends who spent countless volunteered hours to make these events and social media pushes come to life, but then I thought back to how Berwald rarely credited grad students by name in her research, instead opting to only credit or cite their funders or lab directors. To be perfectly honest, this really doesn’t sit right with me, and took away a lot of the wonder and excitement that I felt while reading this book in early chapters.
I think that Berwald really is a talent in the popular science genre— she wrote two fabulous books that bring wonder and make learning about the oceans accessible to a general audience, which is a hard thing to do with scientific nonfiction sometimes— but this book missed the mark for me.
May 4, 2022
THIS IS NOT A DEPRESSING BOOK.
The corals will ultimately be okay, people care, they are not doomed. They're wicked 'smart' animals and, well...life finds a way. One way or another.
This book goes over a general history of coral troubles and protection, but even as someone who's read a lot about conservation in my degree and tends to stay far away from nature books and climate change books, I found everything in here immensely interesting and not just repeating things I learned in textbooks. And it's not even hopeless. Yay!
It's good news, everyone! People and corporations with money CARE about corals. Their importance is recognized. Shit is happening. Sure, a lot will be too late, but that's mostly for humans' benefit. Some corals will make it through these fevered oceans, even if we are totally screwed. Does that make sense? Are we still cheering? Kind of.
I didn't know a whole lot about corals going in, and I learned so much! Many species are gender fluid or reproduce asexually. No one really knows for sure their relationship with lichen--is it symbiotic or parasitic? The genetic makeup of corals is still barely understood. (While trying to genetically engineer stronger corals to survive in warmer waters scientists realized there's no 'heat tolerance' gene, because that's too easy.) Ah! They're just cool!
Not only do we learn about corals BUT throughout the book Juli weaves her own experiences with her pre-teen daughter's sudden manifestation of OCD via an unresolved strep infection (which is REALLY interesting). I have OCD and I am really wary of stories that feature that representation. I don't often read about real stories about other people's experience with OCD because sometimes they trigger me and it's hard to read. Thankfully, her daughter's OCD expressed itself just differently enough that it wasn't triggering for me. I think Juli writing about it was part cathartic for her as a mom and dealing with her child's mental health, and part connecting that brain chemistry/virus knowledge in humans to what is known about corals (spoiler alert: we are barely scratching the surface of either).
Additionally, toward the end of the book Juli addresses the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd-spurred public attention toward police brutality, general racism and intersectional experiences during covid, and intersectionality and lack of representation in scientific fields. I am SO GLAD she did this. Nowadays if I read nonfiction books by white people and they don't mention anything about their whiteness in their field, I tend to side-eye what they're saying.
Life on the Rocks is much different than Spineless, her debut, but I loved it just as much. Juli's journalistic way of looking at nature and our relationship with it is lovely to read.
The corals will ultimately be okay, people care, they are not doomed. They're wicked 'smart' animals and, well...life finds a way. One way or another.
This book goes over a general history of coral troubles and protection, but even as someone who's read a lot about conservation in my degree and tends to stay far away from nature books and climate change books, I found everything in here immensely interesting and not just repeating things I learned in textbooks. And it's not even hopeless. Yay!
It's good news, everyone! People and corporations with money CARE about corals. Their importance is recognized. Shit is happening. Sure, a lot will be too late, but that's mostly for humans' benefit. Some corals will make it through these fevered oceans, even if we are totally screwed. Does that make sense? Are we still cheering? Kind of.
I didn't know a whole lot about corals going in, and I learned so much! Many species are gender fluid or reproduce asexually. No one really knows for sure their relationship with lichen--is it symbiotic or parasitic? The genetic makeup of corals is still barely understood. (While trying to genetically engineer stronger corals to survive in warmer waters scientists realized there's no 'heat tolerance' gene, because that's too easy.) Ah! They're just cool!
Not only do we learn about corals BUT throughout the book Juli weaves her own experiences with her pre-teen daughter's sudden manifestation of OCD via an unresolved strep infection (which is REALLY interesting). I have OCD and I am really wary of stories that feature that representation. I don't often read about real stories about other people's experience with OCD because sometimes they trigger me and it's hard to read. Thankfully, her daughter's OCD expressed itself just differently enough that it wasn't triggering for me. I think Juli writing about it was part cathartic for her as a mom and dealing with her child's mental health, and part connecting that brain chemistry/virus knowledge in humans to what is known about corals (spoiler alert: we are barely scratching the surface of either).
Additionally, toward the end of the book Juli addresses the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd-spurred public attention toward police brutality, general racism and intersectional experiences during covid, and intersectionality and lack of representation in scientific fields. I am SO GLAD she did this. Nowadays if I read nonfiction books by white people and they don't mention anything about their whiteness in their field, I tend to side-eye what they're saying.
Life on the Rocks is much different than Spineless, her debut, but I loved it just as much. Juli's journalistic way of looking at nature and our relationship with it is lovely to read.
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July 24, 2023Did I actually finish this book? No
Did I finish my book report? Yes
I’m planning for this to be my bedtime book once I’m out of this slump but who knows if I’ll ever actually finish it.
Did I finish my book report? Yes
I’m planning for this to be my bedtime book once I’m out of this slump but who knows if I’ll ever actually finish it.
June 2, 2023
In this book the author intertwines a theme of coral threat and mental health through the narrative of her world spanning interviews and her own daughter’s personal battle with OCD. The link the author draws is that both are foundational to our health, difficult to see, and neither has a simple treatment. They also draw some interesting parallels through the idea of us each being a complex symbiosis of organisms - an idea known as the holobiont. I thought it was an interesting approach and honestly I found the mental health aspect a lot more interesting. I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn’t get into the Coral plot, partly because I was familiar with a lot of the science, but also because I felt that the hopeful approaches she was focusing on seemed too small-scale to be of real impact. We simply aren’t going to “reef ball” our way out of this. I fear that neoliberal approaches to conservation are going to 1) distract us from large scale emissions reductions and 2) make us feel like we have a handle on the problem when we support coral transplanting or hotel based restoration.
February 17, 2024
I liked "Life on the Rocks" a lot less than the author's other book, Spineless, which I also only gave three stars. Though the subject matter is right up my alley—ocean science, specifically, coral—this book was about just about everything else in relation to the coral rather than the coral itself. The author spent far too much time describing meals she had with scientists and conversations she had at scientific conferences—the kind of superfluous background noise that doesn't usually make it into a book, and probably shouldn't have here either. There was also a side "plot" about her daughter's unfortunate OCD diagnosis and treatments that really had nothing to do with coral, but everything to do with the author's personal life, which she somehow attempted to tie into the bigger picture of coral by the end (a la coral's future is tied to the earth's future=her daughter's future)... unsuccessfully, IMHO. I'm not sure I'll be picking up Ms. Berwald's next tome, no matter how intriguing the ocean subject matter.
February 21, 2023
I realllyyyyy don't know about this book. On the one hand, I loved it and found the science of understanding climate change impacts on marine organisms super interesting. However, to be perfectly blunt, the connections made between all the different aspects of the book felt disjointed and contrived. I was interested in it all, but in my opinion, the book lacked a cohesive narrative arc.
January 30, 2023
An interesting personal view of the coral reefs, Worth reading if you love oceans, hate climate change or anything in between. Would have liked maybe a follow up chapter of what normal people at home can do to help the fight.
January 4, 2023
2.5-3 stars
My thoughts are still ruminating but at first blush upon completion is that I am perhaps not the target audience for this style of popular science writing. With my background in environmental science and compliance I felt it got too into the weeds of personal stories when trying to relate the science and biology of living corals to humanity and the author's family. I would have preferred more data, more detail on the research the community of scientists have performed and observed. However there were some very interesting nuggets of information that were entirely new to me and I've already shared some of them with personal acquaintances.
My thoughts are still ruminating but at first blush upon completion is that I am perhaps not the target audience for this style of popular science writing. With my background in environmental science and compliance I felt it got too into the weeds of personal stories when trying to relate the science and biology of living corals to humanity and the author's family. I would have preferred more data, more detail on the research the community of scientists have performed and observed. However there were some very interesting nuggets of information that were entirely new to me and I've already shared some of them with personal acquaintances.
March 29, 2022
I’ve never been absorbed into a book of scientific writing like with Life On The Rocks. Berwald has an uncanny ability of shaping scientific nonfiction with fun and quirky prose, making it a book that you will not only learn a tremendous amount from, but will be able to relate to in surprising ways. Everyone should care about the state and prognosis of the world’s coral reefs. Learning more about what this looks like and the scientists working on conservation was fascinating. I’ve already recommended this book to multiple people!
May 27, 2025
I really enjoy nature books, and coral reefs aren't something I know much about so this was a great introduction. I felt a little strange about the memoir aspects of the book involving the author's daughter. I would have liked a note stating the daughter consented to being included in that way at least. The social justice aspects at the end of the book felt shoehorned in, even though I completely agree with her I think they needed to be woven throughout the rest of the book more skillfully instead of dumped at the end. I still definitely recommend this book for the topic at hand though.
December 10, 2023
4.5 ⭐️!! This was really well done! I particularly enjoyed how Berwald places an emphasis on the communities that are impacted and will be impacted disproportionately by climate change due to systemic injustices. She connected the economic and cultural significance of the oceans and reefs to Black and Brown communities which is so crucial. She also emphasizes how conservation and restoration are often unsuccessful without the participation of local groups. These are topics that are too often lacking from marine conservation spaces and i’ve rarely if ever read a book on this topic that emphasizes these issues. I appreciate you Juli Berwald!!
August 1, 2025
A super solid read that expands into more than just marine biology in a way that’s easy to understand & digest. Absolutely blown away by how much work conversationists have done behind the scenes that we have no idea about bc we aren’t in that bubble & the media chooses not to highlight it. Highly recommend.
February 21, 2023
This book felt like a beloved slap to the back of the head.
There are so many good people doing smart things & smart people doing good things.
Also the coral themselves are badass creatures who are so capable of evolving to protect themselves. There's no need to worry so much about the things you cannot change, it takes a village and the village is already working hard.
There are so many good people doing smart things & smart people doing good things.
Also the coral themselves are badass creatures who are so capable of evolving to protect themselves. There's no need to worry so much about the things you cannot change, it takes a village and the village is already working hard.
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January 31, 2023switched to audiobook partway, very dense with information but really informative. looking forward to more scientific books this year
March 4, 2025
I did not care for the way she talked about her daughter’s mental health.
January 31, 2023
Really well written and accessible for people who don’t know that much about corals (me). Her connections to her daughters mental illness were poignant, although feel a tad exploitative and exposing at times. I didn’t love the way Berwald tries to weave in the Black Lives Matter movement without devoting much attention to the connections between climate change and racial injustice. It falls flat and feels like a last minute grasp at being socially aware as this section is reduced to just a few paragraphs at the end of the book. Some of what she describes about green bonds/blue bonds comes off very much as environmental colonialism.
February 6, 2024
Interesting subject and I did learn some new things, but I should have read deeper into the description to know this was going to involve numerous anecdotes about mental health - while absolutely important, a book about environmental science didn’t feel like the time or place to discuss it.
September 12, 2023
slightly disappointed.
I came in knowing absolutely nothing about coral reefs. I liked how Berwald wrote in a hopeful way and about the economic feasibility of coral restorations. But she also didn't shy away from harsh truths, including information about blast fishing, coral bleaching, and the harmful effects of warming ocean temperatures on reefs. She also writes surprisingly well imo, considering the fact that she is a textbook author. Her descriptions of the fish and coral she saw while scuba diving were lush and beautiful.
what i did not like was how Berwald repeatedly divulged information about her daughter's mental health issues in order to drive the narrative forward. The information felt intrusive and did not portray her daughter (who i'm assuming is still just a kid) in a positive light, and I felt really uncomfortable knowing these things about her. And the connection between Berwald's family issues to reef restoration was tenuous, despite her attempts to relate the two repeatedly. Obviously I don't know her family and her relationship with her daughter, but I've always disliked it when parents put their own children on display for personal benefit.
I came in knowing absolutely nothing about coral reefs. I liked how Berwald wrote in a hopeful way and about the economic feasibility of coral restorations. But she also didn't shy away from harsh truths, including information about blast fishing, coral bleaching, and the harmful effects of warming ocean temperatures on reefs. She also writes surprisingly well imo, considering the fact that she is a textbook author. Her descriptions of the fish and coral she saw while scuba diving were lush and beautiful.
what i did not like was how Berwald repeatedly divulged information about her daughter's mental health issues in order to drive the narrative forward. The information felt intrusive and did not portray her daughter (who i'm assuming is still just a kid) in a positive light, and I felt really uncomfortable knowing these things about her. And the connection between Berwald's family issues to reef restoration was tenuous, despite her attempts to relate the two repeatedly. Obviously I don't know her family and her relationship with her daughter, but I've always disliked it when parents put their own children on display for personal benefit.
March 29, 2024
An interesting exploration into the current plights featuring coral reefs around the world, the causes of these plights (climate change - definitely; chemical sunscreens - more spuriously), and various inspiring and creative projects scientists and philanthropists have been exploring to regrow the reefs. However, I was very put off by Berwald repeatedly shoehorning her teenage daughter's struggles with OCD into the book -- at the end she tried to make it a metaphor for how both mental illness and coral reefs need systemic, long-term, and sometimes unconventional solutions to improve -- but honestly this part just didn't work for me (and made me uneasy about how her daughter, who was a minor at the time Berwald details her struggles, feels about having her struggles in print without being able to choose if and how to tell her own story). There were other times in the narrative where I felt like Berwald was improperly inserting herself into the story -- particularly on how she became obsessed with a certain phone game during the pandemic -- like, how is this relevant? It's not. For those reasons, despite the fascinating science, I'm left at a 3-star rating.
December 18, 2022
This book reminded me of An Immense World, with its vivid descriptions of the mysteries of coral biology and the author's extended interactions with experts in the field. (One side note - I kind of wish books wouldn't compare other species' life histories to gender fluidity or to gender-bending, since those species don't have the gender constructs or identities that humans do.) I'd hoped there would be more concrete ideas for getting involved, but the inside look at organizations working on reef conservation seems like a good starting point. I got a lot out of reading about Berwald's personal and family struggles - they're really moving, and the metaphors work. This book has so much more heart and vulnerability and hope than I expected going in, on a topic that I usually think of as pretty dismal.
December 26, 2022
This book follows Juli Berwald's journey through her understanding of corals and the impacts humans have had on coral reefs and the environment as a whole. This book gets into biological details or evolution and biological mechanisms, but is also digestible to someone not too familiar with the wonderful animal known as coral. Alongside Berwald's marine stories, she shares her journey as a mother of a teenaged daughter going through a difficult time.
I enjoyed listening to the audiobook of this. There were some later chapters in which I found myself spacing out and not paying as much attention, but that was usually in the fine details. I like the pairing of her personal and professional life to tell a full story.
I give this book a 4/5. It's hopeful while still being realistic. I will read more books from this author.
I enjoyed listening to the audiobook of this. There were some later chapters in which I found myself spacing out and not paying as much attention, but that was usually in the fine details. I like the pairing of her personal and professional life to tell a full story.
I give this book a 4/5. It's hopeful while still being realistic. I will read more books from this author.
September 14, 2023
You would think this would be about coral reefs, but you would be really wrong.
At least half is a mix of the author life, with the focus on the mental health struggles of her daughter which felt super uncomfortable that she was sharing all this. I honestly really hope Mars and other companies were paying them for all the procapitalism rhetoric, I was not expecting them to be fooled by greenwashing and the bare minimum for tax breaks. There was a moment at the end where they tried to tie in the BLM but didn't credit the black STEM members responsible for the social media push which felt like a glaring oversight when almost every other scientist mentioned were named. Most actual science mentioned was pretty surface level, if you are somewhat following current coral information I don't think you'll find anything new.
At least half is a mix of the author life, with the focus on the mental health struggles of her daughter which felt super uncomfortable that she was sharing all this. I honestly really hope Mars and other companies were paying them for all the procapitalism rhetoric, I was not expecting them to be fooled by greenwashing and the bare minimum for tax breaks. There was a moment at the end where they tried to tie in the BLM but didn't credit the black STEM members responsible for the social media push which felt like a glaring oversight when almost every other scientist mentioned were named. Most actual science mentioned was pretty surface level, if you are somewhat following current coral information I don't think you'll find anything new.
June 20, 2023
First I want to say I listened to this book rather than read the physical copy and I think that affected my opinion/rating of it.
I loved "Spineless" so I was looking forward to this one, but didn't find it as engaging as her previous book. I think it was difficult especially to retain a lot of the science information when listening to the audiobook.
I did like how she was able to link her personal anecdotes back to coral. However, I found myself enjoying the stories about her daughter more than what she was saying about coral sometimes.
I loved "Spineless" so I was looking forward to this one, but didn't find it as engaging as her previous book. I think it was difficult especially to retain a lot of the science information when listening to the audiobook.
I did like how she was able to link her personal anecdotes back to coral. However, I found myself enjoying the stories about her daughter more than what she was saying about coral sometimes.
February 24, 2023
This is very enlightening. As someone who knows little to nothing about coral and the climate change surrounding it (good or bad), this was a great education in the subject. I enjoyed that both the scientific and also the economic views were considered and discussed. It is incredible what is happening on a global scale when it comes to decisions and climate. We can't all care about everything, but I'm so glad there are very intelligent people who care so much about very niche parts of our climate and are working hard on it.
May 7, 2023
This is a great book.
The author does a great job of providing information in a very vibrant and attention grabbing way. The science is described in accessible and understandable terms for the average person. I like how some of the authors personal experiences are interwoven into the story of coral.
You are on taken on a roller-coaster of the good and the bad for coral and its future. But ultimately, there is hope (and also grief).
The author does a great job of providing information in a very vibrant and attention grabbing way. The science is described in accessible and understandable terms for the average person. I like how some of the authors personal experiences are interwoven into the story of coral.
You are on taken on a roller-coaster of the good and the bad for coral and its future. But ultimately, there is hope (and also grief).
January 3, 2023
I love the authors writing style and the way that the book tells several different stories all wrapped into one it brings to light several new problems and solutions about coral and coral restoration
September 13, 2022
Story of the dangers stressing coral reefs and what is being done about it. Could have been more lavishly illustrated, but nothing is perfect…
February 6, 2023
beautifully written. very informative and the climate change is so scary.
April 7, 2024
Incredible book. Brilliant information and questioning.
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