Rising Seas Test Defenses Of South American Ports

Fuente: International Business Times

The breakwater at San Antonio is expanded as part of a multi-million-dollar project to boost the port's storm defences AFP When waves come crashing over the sea wall in Chile's biggest port of San Antonio, dockers run for cover. The state-run port, which handles 1. 7 million containers annually, is frequently lashed by swells several meters high as rising ocean levels linked to climate change cause more frequent storm surges.