University of the Virgin Islands graduate student Sonora Meiling studies the extent of a bleaching event affecting an entire field of boulder star corals (Orbicella annularis) off the coast of St Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Dan Mele
PALISADES, N.Y. (Reuters) - Some 20 miles north of New York City, a team of scientists is searching for clues about how the environment is changing by studying organisms not usually found in the woods around here: corals.
In the labs of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a research unit of Columbia University overlooking the Hudson River, the scientists led by Professor Braddock Linsley pore over feet-long coral cores they extracted from far-away reefs.
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