When sea level rises and salt water floods coastal forests, it kills the trees. What’s left behind is called a ghost forest.

"The closer a forest is to sea level, the greater the risk of tree death and the detection of ghost forests," Xi Yang, an ...

Sea level rise and other factors cause coastal trees to die where they stand, and climate change is making matters worse.

North Carolina’s bald cypress forests, with their distinctive reddish bark and unique “knees,” have long been a defining ...

Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey are investigating eerie landscapes known as ‘ghost forests,’ which emerge when the ...

Sophia Heilen ’26 is uncovering evidence of a new kind of unnatural shapeshifting quietly occurring around us: many of the ...

One day three girls asked if they could go to the forest. “No” their parents all yelled at once. "It's too dangerous; haven’t you heard the stories? Last time I let one of my kids in those ...