Salt marshes protect coastlines by attenuating wind waves, but even though the marsh substrate remains stable during extreme storms, vegetation damage reduces wave attenuation. Nature can only do so much to protect us against an increasingly dangerous world created by climate change.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11145-8
David Ho
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2026-10-22 14:55:34 UTC
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