The nonprofit Boston Harbor Now added concrete panels to seawalls that mimic rocky tidal habitats.
Skip to content
(Image credit: David J. Boozer / Unsplash)
Transcript:
Over time, many coastal cities have developed their shorelines and built seawalls to protect them from erosion and flooding.
Christo: “So in Boston, for instance, a lot of the coastal areas used to be salt marshes and mudflats. … A lot of those edges have been hardened into granite seawalls.”
COBH, Ireland — On a bright, warm day in April in Cobh, Ireland, I step down a centuries-old cobbled slipway that descends into a…
Cities are looking for ways to improve river health without relying only on large-scale engineering projects. In Boston, one…
As the Trump administration dismisses global heating, the coastal city is getting on with becoming one of the most climate…
Apuesta por una idea novedosa: usar arrecifes artificiales y ostras para que el propio ecosistema ayude a proteger la costa.
For decades, parts of Chesapeake Bay have quietly absorbed fragments of American infrastructure that had already lived one life…
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water…
