Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas

Coral-fringed tropical atolls are among the landforms most threatened by global warming, but many have a potential superpower: Healthy ecosystems may help them keep pace with rising seas. Atoll islands with native vegetation and thriving seabird populations are “naturally active systems that can change and adapt to their environmental conditions if they are allowed to do so,” said Nick Graham , a marine ecologist at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, who led an international team of sci