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Stanford researchers say living corals thousands of years old hold clues to past climate changes
02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!Stanford researcher Brendan Roark to talk at AAAS meeting about discovery that deep-water corals off Hawaii are as old as 4,000 years. Coral may hold clues to ocean and climate changes of past centuries, and must be protected from devastation from fishing ships and coral harvesters.
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