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.

Misra noticed a fossil-rich slab of mudstone at Newfoundland ... Photographed at The Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration; Specimen from Florida Keys ...

This is why the world’s coral reefs need help. Global action to end the burning of fossil fuels and to maintain the forests that help slow climate change are crucial to the survival of coral ...

Join Museum palaeontologist Dr Ken Johnson to discover how Britain’s fossil record reveals surprising clues about the past and future of today’s coral reefs. Tropical corals once dotted the coast of ...

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, ...

But the greatest threat of all threats to coral reefs is carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, which leads to ocean warming and acidification. Leading coral biologist Charles Veron has ...

Coral reefs are very much the rainforests of the oceans. Not only are they diverse communities, but the coral skeletons - like trees - contain potentially long term records of climate. Aa Aa Aa ...