SINGAPORE — "For seven thousand years, Singapore has changed around these reefs," says Debby Ng, a Singaporean biologist who studies the city-state's shrinking coastlines of seagrasses, mangroves and corals. "They are still here." Despite colonization, war, shipping and industrialization, reefs a few kilometers south of Singapore's gleaming shoreline have endured.
SINGAPORE — "For seven thousand years, Singapore has changed around these reefs," says Debby Ng, a Singaporean biologist who studies the city-state's shrinking coastlines of seagrasses, mangroves and corals.
"They are still here." Despite colonization, war, shipping and industrialization, reefs a few kilometers south of Singapore's gleaming shoreline have endured.
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SINGAPORE — "For seven thousand years, Singapore has changed around these reefs," says Debby Ng, a Singaporean biologist who studies the city-state's shrinking coastlines of seagrasses, mangroves and corals. "They are still here." Despite colonization, war, shipping and industrialization, reefs a few kilometers south of Singapore's gleaming shoreline have endured.
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