Caught Between Quarries and Sea Erosion | Inter Press
Sep 28, 2012 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Sep 28 2012 (IPS) - After more than a century of fighting sea erosion by massively dumping granite boulders along the beaches of southern Kerala state, environmentalists and administrators are beginning to see that this has been a costly and ineffective solution. Since 1890 when granite blocks were first used to construct a 1.5 km sea wall near the