Lughnasa Harvest Moon
Here’s an ecological problem I’ll bet you’ve not heard about unless you’ve traveled by Linblad ships recently. Maybe not even then. Read the whole review, well worth it, at New York Review of Books.
(Box Jelly, aka, the most poisonous creature on the planet.)
“From the Arctic to the equator and on to the Antarctic, jellyfish plagues (or blooms, as they’re technically known) are on the increase. Even sober scientists are now talking of the jellification of the oceans. And the term is more than a mere turn of phrase. Off southern Africa, jellyfish have become so abundant that they have formed a sort of curtain of death, “a stingy-slimy killing field,” as Gershwin puts it, that covers over 30,000 square miles.”
quote from: Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean
by Lisa-ann Gershwin, with a foreword by Sylvia Earle
University of Chicago Press, 424 pp., $27.50
