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‘Ghost forests’ could be key to understanding coastal resilience to climate change (IMAGE)

The quality and quantity of dissolved organic matter changes as a healthy forest transitions into a ghost forest. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...
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Are NC's 'ghost forests' a canary in the coal mine for upcoming coastal change?

They are the tall, grayish-white, often limbless sentinels that rise from the marshes as the mainland ends and North Carolina's extensive coastal rivers, estuaries and sounds begin. They are ghost ...
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Hunting for hidden ghost forests: What SC's spectral woodlands tell us about the future

CAPERS ISLAND — Salt-scored ghosts stand watch along the shore of this small Charleston County island. Colloquially known as "Boneyard Beach," it's one of many ghost forests that run like veins along ...
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The "ghost forests" of the Atlantic Coast: Why trees are dying standing up

Along the eastern seaboard of the United States, from Maine through the Carolinas, stretches of forest are turning into graveyards of bare trunks. These dead stands, known as ghost forests, are not ...
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‘Ghost forests’ could be key to understanding coastal resilience to climate change (IMAGE)

Robyn O’Halloran (left) and Ryan Kim (right) collect the rainwater that travels down branches and the trunk of a sweetgum tree to study the rapid changes to coastal forests caused by rising sea levels ...
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‘Ghost forests’ could be key to understanding coastal resilience to climate change

ATLANTA, March 26, 2026 — Rising sea levels are contributing to a phenomenon called “ghost forests,” which are groups of dead and dying standing trees that have been drowned by intruding saltwater.