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Rising Seas Test Defenses Of South American Ports

The breakwater at San Antonio is expanded as part of a multi-million-dollar project to boost the port's storm defences (Credit: 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.

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