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," environmental ...

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

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

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

The salty water slowly poisons living trees, leaving a haunted ghost forest of dead and dying timber." Still standing in or near brackish water, the decaying trees of a ghost forest resemble giant ...

In the images, the ghost forest appears light brown and stands out against the bright green healthy forest. NASA's data shows that in the last 20 years, the watery remains of a once verdant ...