Ghost forests (grey patches of dead trees) are becoming so prevalent in North Carolina they are visible from space
© NASA / U.S. Geological Survey
Climate change has transformed swaths of protected woodland in North Carolina into lifeless ‘ghost forests’. Marked by thousands of leafless, limbless trunks, stumps and toppled trees, they’ve taken over about 11 per cent of the tree cover in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in the past three decades, resulting in tens of thousands of acres of dead greenery.