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Restoring saltmarshes, a cost-effective strategy to counteract the rise in sea level
2016-07-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Saltmarshes cushion the energy of the waves and act as natural barriers against high-energy climate phenomena. That is why restoring the currently occupied saltmarshes could be a cost-effective adaptation strategy to counteract the effects of the rise in sea level. This is one of the conclusions of a piece of research led by the UPV/EHU and which sets the time needed by several saltmarshes on the eastern Cantabrian coast to regenerate at less than 10 years. In the current scenario of global warming...
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