Just in time for Halloween, federal scientists this week announced new research into so-called "ghost forests," spooky tracts of dead trees common along the Eastern Seaboard. According to the ...

Researchers found a forest on one side of a canal transitioned to “ghost forest” earlier than forest on the other side of the road. Credit: John King. via NCSU by Laura Oleniacz — February ...

“Ghost forests are the most striking indicator of climate change anywhere on the Atlantic coast,” says Kirwan. One of the primary mechanisms for ghost-forest creation is sea-level rise, says ...

Known as the “ghost forest” of Neskowin, this group of some 100 stumps and snags is all that’s left of a 2,000-year-old stand of Sitka spruce, once buried by an earthquake, now revered as ...

100,000 acres of forest and farmland have become wetlands in the Chesapeake region since the late 19th century, Kirwan explained, resulting in extensive ghost forests.

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