University News – Coral atoll islands may outpace sea-level rise with local ecological restoration, scientists say – UoA

Source: University of Auckland

Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate change, according to an international team of scientists, conservationists, and an indigenous leader.

While global carbon emission reduction is imperative, local measures could be the key to the islands outpacing sea levels, they argue today in the journal Tr