In the 20th century, global sea level rose faster than at any other time in the past 3,000 years. It's expected to rise even ...

Sarah Kaplan and Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to four islands of the Seychelles and a geochemistry lab in Madison, Wis. to document how fossil corals are helping scientists predict future sea level rise.

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

Researchers are unlocking the ancient secrets of the world's most diverse marine habitat. Could their discoveries help us save our oceans? In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London ...

New research, published in the journal Nature, shows this partnership is so old that it predates the evolution of modern corals. Fossils found in northern Africa and Germany suggest that many of their ...

“The best way to protect coral reefs is to address the root cause of climate change. And that means reducing the human emissions that are mostly from burning of fossil fuels everything else is ...

"Understanding how corals have responded to previous environmental changes can help us see how they might respond to future changes," says Johnson. In fact, the fossils not only led to a ...