Imagine being able to measure the extent of sea-level change over the past half million years, or find out why our climate changes through time. Clues to those mysteries and others may be sunk deep in ...

A flight from Florida landed in Corpus Christi last month carrying an unusual cargo: almost 300 corals, making their way to a new home on the other side of the Gulf of Mexico. Packed and sealed in ...

Coral reefs support 25 percent of all marine life around the globe. Those in the Gulf of Mexico, along the coasts of Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Mexico, might be less known and less popular among ...

A University of Sydney student has developed a completely new way to peer inside coral fossils to recover lost records of past climate change. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

A research team has used nitrogen isotope analysis to demonstrate that 385 million years old corals from the Eifel and Sauerland regions had symbionts. This finding represents the earliest evidence of ...

SEYCHELLES — 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 ...

Lead author Carra Williams, a PhD student in geosciences at the University of Sydney, here holds a fossilised coral core that has undergone neutron scanning. A University of Sydney student has ...