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.
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