GLOBAL WARMING: ECOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT.PART 15

As at 1990s,fires were set earlier in the dryseason,dentingand slashing more than one Tennessee's worth of rainforest,burned every year.Tom Lovejoy,a biologist makes positive remarksthat in Amazon,"there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazonthan exist in all of North America".Thatis thousands of songs,theworld has never heard being silenced on a daily basis.That...."living species of animals and plants are now vanishingaround the world,one thousand timesfaster than at any time in the past65million years(see pg.24,with illustration).Corral reefs worldwide,have begun to bleach,in the face of warmer ocean temperatures,that pressure them withpeculiar stress,on the tiny organism thatthrive onthe Coral's skin,giving italso natural colouration.He explainsthe effect of lack of symbiosis,when he says" As they organisms nicknamed"zooks"leave the membrane of the coral,the coral itself becomes transparent allowing its white limestone skeleton to shinethrough,hence its bleached appearance".