{"id":37572,"date":"2021-09-09T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=37572"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:51:19","slug":"using-underwater-structures-to-help-grow-islands-and-rebuild-coastlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2021\/09\/using-underwater-structures-to-help-grow-islands-and-rebuild-coastlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Underwater Structures to Help Grow Islands and Rebuild Coastlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(getpocket.com) &#8211; Sea levels are rising and at a faster rate over the past few decads than ever before. With 40% of the world&#8217;s population living in coastal areas, this will become more of a concern. Ongoing coastal dredging is not able to solve the problem and some scientists say we should &#8220;work with the forces of nature, harnessing them to build rather than destroy.\u201d They have designed a system of underwater structures that harness the energy of ocean waves to help redistribute sand. <a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/the-extraordinary-way-we-ll-rebuild-our-shrinking-islands?utm_source=pocket-newtab\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(getpocket.com) &#8211; Sea levels are rising and at a faster rate over the past few decads than ever before. With 40% of the world&#8217;s population living in coastal areas, this will become more of a concern. Ongoing coastal dredging is not able to solve the problem and some scientists say we should &#8220;work with the forces of nature, harnessing them to build rather than destroy.\u201d They have designed a system of underwater structures that harness the energy of ocean waves to help redistribute sand. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37572\/revisions\/37573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}