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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pictures of spooky "ghost forests" in North Carolina have been snapped from space, and a comparison of NASA images show how the bald cypress forests are being killed off. In 2024, the forests ...