New report questions hard-edged 'living shorelines' in estuaries
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 16:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The increasing use of large breakwaters and other hard structures to reduce erosion in "living shorelines" along coastal estuaries may be no better for the environment than the ecologically harmful bulkheads they were designed to replace, according to a report this week by scientists at Duke and Western Carolina universities.