Learn how scientists are studying America’s ghost forests to improve the resilience of coastal habitats.

Recent research indicates that "ghost forests" impact their surrounding ecosystem in ways that extend beyond their haunting ...

Discover more about this phenomenon and how they can help improve the understanding of coastal resilience to climate change.

I look across a salt marsh in South Wellfleet, Mass., lush in midsummer, the emerald cordgrass swaying in the sea breeze. A marsh hawk cruises low, searching for voles. But at the marsh’s edge, a ...

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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 ...

Many of the effects of the climate crisis are not immediately visible to the naked eye. “Ghost forests” are an exception, and they may be among the most arresting physical signs of the dangers facing ...

Researchers say studying how water cycles through ghost forests may hold the key to understanding how coastal forest ...

From above, there’s no mistaking the loss. More than 11 million points pepper a map of the East Coast, each representing a once-living tree, in a trail of mortality stretching from South Carolina to ...

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 ...