Sea-level rise caused by climate change poses a serious and often unpredictable threat to coastal forests, and new tools are needed to help mitigate damage and allocate conservation resources.
Have you ever walked through a forest and seen the remnants of trees with most branches removed and just the inner cores remaining? Well, you might be in what is known as a ‘ghost forest’ that ...
Ghost forests are known to emerge when coastal landscapes become inundated by sea level rise or flooding. The eastern U.S. around the Delmarva Peninsula and east North Carolina are particularly ...
Ghost forests are known to emerge when coastal landscapes become inundated by sea level rise or flooding. The eastern U.S. around the Delmarva Peninsula and east North Carolina are particularly ...
Our newsletters uncover the insights you need to understand the issues facing Coastal Georgia—delivered to your inbox five times a week. The number of longleaf pines is increasing across the Southeast ...
Known as one of the first naturalists in human history, Pliny the Elderly was convinced that “the smell of the forest where peach and resin are collected [coniferous forests] is extremely salutary to ...
Sophia Heilen ’26 is uncovering evidence of a new kind of unnatural shapeshifting quietly occurring around us: many of the state’s coastal forests are being killed in a transition to saltwater marshes ...