A photograph of a stunning creature also captured a terrible predicament all too common in our polluted world. What's ...
It tells of a time 125,000 years ago, when a modest increase in Earth’s temperatures caused ice sheets to melt and global sea levels to surge. The height of the coral — which can grow only ...
the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...
Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs.
Yamano said he plans to present his findings in a research paper in December ... to think that the coral quietly and slowly migrated northward and settled in the cold sea.” ...