Climate change and pollution are tag-teaming to destroy natural coral reefs that clean our oceans and house thousands of sea creatures. Since climate change and pollution are man-made problems, some cities, like Miami, are trying to come up with man-made solutions. Enter the Concrete Coral, a project from nonprofit organization Reefline, aiming to turn life beneath the waves of Miami’s coastline into an art gallery with a functional, environmentally friendly purpose.
The AP reports that these man-made coral sculptures are shaped like cars and are made from marine-grade concrete. They’ll soon be covered in 2,200 native corals grown in a local Miami lab, many of which survived the near-cataclysmic 2023 mass bleaching event that killed off thousands of coral species along Miami’s coastline.
