The saltwater brought ashore when the sea level rises is killing acres of forests. What’s left? Ghost forests. “As the salt comes in, it poisons things, poisons the soil and saturates it,” said Lenore Tedesco, the executive director of The Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J. “And it kills these forests.”
Turetsky studies zombie fires across Canada and Alaska. She is researching whether climate change is helping more undead fires rise from an icy grave each spring.
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