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Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged.Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina s Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted. Many are dead.
Throughout coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass while driving around the region is lined with dead or dying trees.
As an ecologist studying wetland response to sea level rise, I know this flooding is evidence that climate change is altering landscapes along the Atlantic coast. It s emblematic of environmental changes that also threaten wildlife, ecosystems, and local farms and forestry businesses.
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Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted. Many are dead.
Throughout coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass while driving around the region is lined with dead or dying trees.
As an ecologist studying wetland response to sea level rise, I know this flooding is evidence that climate change is altering landscapes along the Atlantic coast. It’s emblematic of environmental changes that also threaten wildlife, ecosystems and local farms and forestry businesses.
Sea Level Rise Is Creating Ghost Forests That are Visible From Space Sunday April 25, 2021
Ghost forest panorama in coastal North Carolina. Photo: Emily Ury, CC BY-ND
Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted. Many are dead.
Throughout coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass while driving around the region is lined with dead or dying trees.
Thereâs a Booming Business in Americaâs Forests. Some Arenât Happy About It.
The fuel pellet industry is thriving. Supporters see it as a climate-friendly source of rural jobs. For others, itâs a polluter and destroyer of nature.
A tree being dragged to a wood chipper, a first step toward being transformed into wood pellets and shipped overseas.Credit.
Photographs and Video by Erin Schaff
Gabriel Popkin and Erin Schaff traveled to Northampton County, N.C., to examine the climate controversy over a fast-growing industry.
April 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
GARYSBURG, N.C. â In 2013, Kathy Claiborne got a noisy new neighbor. Thatâs when a huge factory that dries and presses wood into roughly cigarette-filter-sized pellets roared to life near her tidy home in one of the stateâs poorest counties. On a recent afternoon in her front yard, near the end of a cul-de-sac, the mill rumbled like an uncomfortably close jet engine.