Guns, Corals and Steel: Are Nuclear Shipwrecks a Biodiversity Hotspot?

Mongabay
Apr 28, 2019, 10:58 pm197 pts
In our last Reefscape story, we explored the northern Marshall Islands in search of answers about the long-term effects of nuclear fallout on coral reefs. We visited Rongelap and Ailinginae atolls, where Cesium-137 and other highly radioactive material from 1954’s Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test on Bikini…

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