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07-21-08, 06:07 AM
Coral skeletons can reveal facts of climate change

"Corals are natural climate recorders. They grow continuously, so there are no gaps in the record. And they grow for a long time, sometimes reaching 1,000 years old" - Anne Cohen, WHOI Research Associate.

Read more (http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=14941&tid=282&cid=28690)