Near the Fijian Islands in the south-western Pacific, the ocean has not been as warm in the past 600 years as it is today, according to a study published in Science Advances journal. The data is “further evidence of the unprecedented warming of the western Pacific,” according to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany, which was involved in the research. The view into the climatic past was made possible by the reef-building honeycomb coral (Diploastrea heliopora) which can live for a very long time and grows on average between 3 to 6 millimetres per year. Climate changes of pa…