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How a ‘living breakwater’ in Hawai‘i aims to create coral habitat and protect coastline

MONGABAY · Jules Struck ·

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On Sept. 8, Hurricane Lowell ripped across the Pacific Ocean and around Hawai‘i, sloshing huge waves onto O‘ahu’s west flank and spitting baseball-sized chunks of coral through the window of at least one home. Hawai‘i and its coastal highways, which loop several of the U.S. state’s seven inhabited islands, have been bruised by increasingly intense […]

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