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"},"content":{"rendered":"Nature<\/em> Nature Published\u00a0June 13, 2018\u00a0(News release from Nature Research Press) The current growth rate of coral reefs in the tropical western Atlantic and Indian Ocean is\u00a0almost keeping\u00a0pace with projected sea-level rise, but as coral reefs protect tropical and subtropical shorelines around the globe, small island nations may lose a key contributor to coastal protection against flooding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1AN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6140,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPublished\u00a0June 13, 2018\u00a0<\/strong>(News release<\/a><\/span> from Nature Research Press)
\nThe current growth rate of coral reefs in the tropical western Atlantic and Indian Ocean is\u00a0almost keeping\u00a0pace with projected sea-level rise, but as coral reefs protect tropical and subtropical shorelines around the globe, small island nations may lose a key contributor to coastal protection against flooding and erosion. Researchers calculated the vertical growth potential of more than 200 tropical Atlantic and Indian Ocean reefs and compared these to recent and projected rates of sea-level rise under different Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change greenhouse-gas scenarios.
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\nCanadian co-author:<\/strong> Evan Edinger, Memorial University –\u00a0eedinger@mun.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"