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Coral reefs in Singapore could have been growing for 7,000 years
Study of cores from Southern Islands can shed light on corals from long ago
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The study's principal investigator Huang Danwei (centre) and core members of his National University of Singapore team - (from left) research assistant Oh Ren Min, 24; PhD student Samuel Chan, 29; undergraduate Choo Min, 23; and research assistant Ambert Ang, 31 - with the coral cores.
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As Singapore evolved from a sleepy coastal village into the world's second busiest port, the coral reefs around it were keeping a silent record of the changes underwater.
And they go beyond just the past 200 years or so. In fact, scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found that coral reefs here could have been growing for 7,000 years.
