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

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 ...

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

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 ...