'Ghost forests' creep across NC coast at alarming rate. Researchers try to stop them | Regional

Dozens of eerie, bleached-gray pine trees stand on the marshy shore of Harkers Island. Their trunks are like telephone poles — leafless and lifeless exclamation points amid a tract of

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