Ancient coral fossils from the remote Seychelles islands have unveiled a dramatic warning for our future—sea levels can rise ...

Fossil corals in the Seychelles show sea level rose rapidly in the past, warning that today’s warming could trigger even ...

Coastal planners take heed: Newly uncovered evidence from fossil corals found on an island chain in the Indian Ocean suggests that sea levels could rise even more steeply in our warming world than ...

When you think of fossils, things like dinosaurs or ancient trees probably pop to mind. But if you’re a true geology ...

Fossil coral reefs in the islands of the Seychelles may indicate where sea level rise will be felt the hardest as human-caused climate change impacts the world’s oceans.

The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon dioxide increase during the last deglaciation that took place 20,000 to 10,000 years ago, according to a new report by Boston ...

Coral reefs are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. They are threatened worldwide by human activity and have recently faced unprecedented environmental changes. There is, ...

DR. VON LENDENFELD'S account of the dolomites of the Italian Tyrol, in his letter on “Coral Reefs, Fossil and Recent,” is a very valuable contribution to this interesting question; but I think ...

The study, led by PhD student Jonathan Jung, pushes back fossil evidence of the first known coral symbiosis by over 170 million years. “The fossil record of corals has many notable gaps, making it ...

Fossil fuel projects are putting the Pacific Coral Triangle’s unique marine ecosystem at risk, according to a new report presented Oct. 31 at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity summit ...

In Coral Fossils, Searching for the First Glow of Bioluminescence. A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought.

Global coral reef bleaching event is largest on record, report says 03:59. Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its ...