'Oyster castles' to help keep a South Carolina community safe from erosion
Climate Connections

'Oyster castles' to help keep a South Carolina community safe from erosion

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 20261 min

A nearly 2,000-foot-long wall covered in oysters will restore natural habitat. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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In Laurel Bay, a community with many military families from the nearby Marine Corps Base,

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I'm Dr. Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections. Structures called oyster castles are now protecting a South Carolina coastline from erosion. In Laurel Bay, a community with many military families from the nearby Marine Corps Base, homes in a park sit right next to Port Royal Sound.

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But over time, coastal salt marshes and uplands along this coast have eroded away, and climate change is expected to make the problem worse. With increasing levels of water and sea level rise, increasing storm events, we're seeing that erosion is exacerbated.

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Susanna Masalon Hopkins is with the Nature Conservancy. The nonprofit partnered with federal agencies to protect Laurel Bay with oyster castles. These blocks stack on top of each other to create a wall along the shoreline that breaks up waves and reduces erosion.

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