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The Ocean’s Past Speaks: Fossil Corals Unveil Urgent Climate Warnings

April Joy Jovita

New research suggests that sea levels could rise more steeply than previously predicted, based on fossil coral evidence from the Seychelles Islands. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an international team analyzed fossilized corals to reconstruct past sea levels, revealing abrupt pulses of sea-level rise during the Last Interglacial period. Their findings indicate that ...