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

With their haunting abundance of dead trees, these ghostly forests reveal the consequences of severe flooding and sea level ...

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

Scientists at federal research institutions throughout the US are digging into so-called "ghost forests," or clusters of dead ...

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

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 ...