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Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox A Maldivian coral fossil reveals Indian Ocean sea levels accelerated from 1959, earlier than previously ...

SINGAPORE – The Indian Ocean’s sea levels began accelerating from 1959, far earlier than previously thought, according to Singapore scientists who studied a coral fossil discovered in the Maldives.