From Maine to Miami — The ‘Ghost Forests’ Haunting Our Coastlines

Scientists are now studying “ghost forests”—tracts of dead trees that now hug the East Coast of America, especially around the Florida “Big Bend”, which is dying at an “unprecedented rate.”

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these forests are “the watery remains of a once verdant woodland” and play a crucial role in climate change. In many areas, rising sea levels have combined with land sinking from the last ice age, as is currently happening in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.