{"id":14378,"date":"2025-05-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14378"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:01:06","slug":"island-growth-rising-seas-atoll-resilience-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/island-growth-rising-seas-atoll-resilience-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Islands Are Growing Despite Rising Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"These Islands Shouldn&#039;t Exist\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ebHgAdLrvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Despite fears that rising sea levels would engulf low-lying atoll islands, recent studies show many are not shrinking but remain stable or expand. This unexpected resilience is due to natural processes like wave action and sediment transport. However, while atolls adapt, increased storms and human interference threaten their future. Proper management and ecosystem protection are key to sustaining these islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite rising seas, many atoll islands are growing or staying stable, thanks to natural sediment movements that reshape land, as long as human activity does not interfere.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/28408354\/pexels-photo-28408354\/free-photo-of-aerial-view-of-tropical-island-with-greenery.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9926,9937,9945,9932,9935,9943,9928,9929,9927,9941,9950,9946,9939,9949,9933,9938,9942,9944,9947,9931,341,9940,9948,9936,9934,9930,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-14378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earth","8":"tag-atoll-island-growth-sea-level-rise","9":"tag-atoll-sustainability-strategies","10":"tag-climate-adaptation-low-lying-islands","11":"tag-climate-change-island-resilience","12":"tag-coastal-infrastructure-island-erosion","13":"tag-coral-reef-sediment-production","14":"tag-coral-sediment-island-formation","15":"tag-coral-based-sediment-movement","16":"tag-dynamic-atoll-geomorphology","17":"tag-freshwater-threats-atoll-islands","18":"tag-future-of-atoll-islands","19":"tag-human-impact-on-sediment-transport","20":"tag-island-migration-and-shape-change","21":"tag-island-resilience-and-climate-threats","22":"tag-islands-expanding-rising-seas","23":"tag-maldives-harbor-erosion-example","24":"tag-natural-island-maintenance-processes","25":"tag-preserving-native-coastal-vegetation","26":"tag-reef-health-island-survival","27":"tag-resilient-atoll-islands","28":"tag-scishow","29":"tag-sea-level-rise-and-atoll-stability","30":"tag-sediment-dynamics-and-sea-levels","31":"tag-sediment-flow-coastal-erosion","32":"tag-storm-driven-island-reshaping","33":"tag-wave-driven-sediment-transport","34":"tag-youtube","35":"post_format-post-format-video","36":"cs-entry","37":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14379,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378\/revisions\/14379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}