Living Coral Reefs Provide Better Protection From Tsunami Waves

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Healthy coral reefs provide their adjacent coasts with substantially more protection from destructive tsunami waves than do unhealthy or dead reefs, a Princeton University study suggests. Initially spurred by the tsunami that devastated the coastlines of the Indian Ocean two years ago, the finding provides the first quantitative confirmation of a widely held theory regarding the value of living coral reefs as a defense against tsunami.

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