Other solutions have included elevating the islands above the rising seas (Pala 2020). Some islands are naturally growing in elevation, so even moving people from more danger-prone islands to growing islands may be viable – and in the case of Perlamutrovy, a dozen new islands appeared even as an old one disappeared underwater (Gertcyk 2019). It is possible to artificially raise the height of islands like Kiribati by raising dirt from the bottom of nearby lagoons or stabilize water flow by rebuilding old roads built on coral reefs as elevated bridges. The Republic of Maldives has created an island to house 50,000 people (Peters 2020). Though dredging sediment damages coral reef ecosystems, the Kiribati government sees the process as necessary as it would be easier than relocating key infrastructurey Japan – following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which sunk and ruined massive amounts of coastal land – reversed said land loss along 200 km of the coastline in a few years, through returning coastal areas to their original heights or even increasing them to counteract sea level rises far faster than the one projected to occur this very century (Esteban, Jamero, Nurse, Yamamoto, Takagi, Thao, Mikami, Kench, Onuki, Nellas, Crichton, Valenzuela, Chadwick, Avelino, Tan, and Shibayama 2019). The people of Tubigon, Bohol, in Philippines adapted to regular flooding through piling up coral stones to expand their islands, rebuilding their houses’ foundations and placing them on stilts, or using all bamboo furniture called ‘’lantay’’ to elevate themselves and important items during home flooding (Jamero, Esteban, and Onuki 2016).