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EPISODE · Mar 30, 2026 · 4 MIN

GHOST FORESTS: Are our trees the next to fall victim of sea-level rise?

from The Ocean News Podcast · host Oceanographic Magazine

The lush and bountiful forests dotted along the United States’s eastern coastline are slowly being replaced by ‘ghost forests’, recognisable by clusters of greying trunks, and skeletal dead trees – and researchers have said that these forests may hold the key to understanding how coastal forest ecosystems respond to climate change.

The lush and bountiful forests dotted along the United States’s eastern coastline are slowly being replaced by ‘ghost forests’, recognisable by clusters of greying trunks, and skeletal dead trees – and researchers have said that these forests may hold the key to understanding how coastal forest ecosystems respond to climate change.

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