COASTAL CRITICAL ZONE

Ghost forests haunt the East Coast, harbingers of sea-level rise

About 100 miles from the nation’s capital, near Taylor’s Island and Fishing Creek on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, hundreds of acres of dead trees stand upright, like toothpicks piercing the sky. They are among the mid-Atlantic’s largest “ghost forests,” woodlands rapidly converted to marsh because of sea-level rise. To learn more, click link here. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314607120