'Ghost Forests' Emerge As Rising Seas Kill Tr
Examination of the amoeba fossils in the researcher's specimens may help to clarify why, bulging above the head-high marsh grass a couple of hundred feet further back, cedar forest was dead.There are bare trunks of dead coastal forests being discovered up and down the mid-Atlantic coastline. These are destroyed by the advance of the rising seas. The scientists call them "ghost forests" since they offer an eerie sign of some of the world's fastest rates of rising of sea level.Forests provide habi...