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A design for life: using flower pots to engineer biodiversity into coastal cities

Man-made sea walls are a familiar, and increasingly essential feature on the urbanised coast, but they come at a cost to marine creatures and intertidal habitats. Surfing scientist Ruben Meerman meets Dr Mark Browne of UCD's School of Biology and Environmental Science who has come up with a simple yet effective solution to the problem.

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