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.

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 ...

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 ...

Clues to those mysteries and others may be sunk deep in our oceans, documented within fossil coral similar to how tree rings record changes in precipitation on land. Now, scientists will begin to ...

Brachiopod, bryozoan, and coral fossils can be found in nearly all parts of the state and of these, bryozoans tend to make up the bulk of what I find in central Ohio. Brachiopods resemble bi-valve ...

"We know coral bleaching is accelerating as our oceans warm, driven by the world's continued reliance on fossil fuels," said President Surangel Whipps Jr. from the Pacific island country of Palau.