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Coral reefs work as nature’s sea walls

Coral reefs work as nature’s sea walls

by Coastal Resilience | Oct 7, 2016 | US Virgin Islands

A group of researchers, including Mike Beck and Christine Shepard, combed the literature on coral reefs and wave breaking. They extracted quantitative data from 27 studies across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans — and they found that intact coral reefs reduce...

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