'Spineless' Dives Deep Into The World Of Jellyfish
Part memoir, part travelogue, part science tome, Juli Berwald's book is thoroughly entertaining, and makes the case for the jellyfish as both fascinating animal and a bellwether for climate change.
by Brian Castner
Nov 07, 2017
3 minutes
So much writing about climate change concerns winners and losers, the few who will benefit and what will be lost in our planet's altered future. These pronouncements tend to be sweeping â every shoreline will flood, billions of the world's poor will suffer â in keeping with the global scope of the challenge.
But in , a thoroughly delightful and entertaining new book on jellyfish, author Juli Berwald takes a different tack. Berwald, a science writerfocuses on this single animal, and shows again how climate change science is more complicated than headlines.
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