Scientists say they are not just visual symbols of climate change, but key natural laboratories for understanding the ...

I look across a salt marsh in South Wellfleet, Mass., lush in midsummer, the emerald cordgrass swaying in the sea breeze. A marsh hawk cruises low, searching for voles. But at the marsh’s edge, a ...

Researchers say studying how water cycles through ghost forests may hold the key to understanding how coastal forest ...

With an eerie name and ominous presence, ghost forests can be unmistakable signs of a rapidly shifting climate. However, researchers are pointing to another cause for their formation in North Carolina ...

As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Scientists sent hurricane-level floods into a Maryland forest to find out what extreme weather and sea-level rise mean for coastal woodlands Kristen Goodhue PNNL Earth scientist Peter Regier (left) ...

From above, there’s no mistaking the loss. More than 11 million points pepper a map of the East Coast, each representing a once-living tree, in a trail of mortality stretching from South Carolina to ...

They are the tall, grayish-white, often limbless sentinels that rise from the marshes as the mainland ends and North Carolina's extensive coastal rivers, estuaries and sounds begin. They are ghost ...

Sixty years ago, these freshwater springs and forests were drowned by a 9,500-acre reservoir. Could the ecosystem finally be restored? A snorkeler explores the fish-filled depths of Tobacco Patch ...