China Is Adding To Its Territory With Artificial Islands - Here's How They're Made

China has been turning heads with its impressive artificial islands, which have already become large enough to inhabit.
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Tropical seagrass meadows are sand factories that can help defend coral reef islands from sea-level rise

Holly East receives funding from the British Society for Geomorphology. Jamie Johnson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...
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Scientists say sea-level changes formed Australia's K'Gari Sand Island, Great Barrier Reef

Formation of K'gari, also known as Fraser Island, and Great Barrier Reef may be linked to major climate feedback changes during the Middle Pleistocene Transition LOGAN, UTAH, USA - How did the world’s ...
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Submerged sandbanks shine like underwater auroras in astronaut's view of the Bahamas — Earth from space

A 2016 astronaut photo of the Bahamas shows a series of luminous, rippling sandbanks partly carved out by a coral reef. The image also reveals subtle differences in the ocean's surface caused by a ...