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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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