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Climate change takes hold in North Carolina's ghost forests

Few examples of climate change are as unmistakable and arresting as the “ghost forests” proliferating along parts of the East Coast — and particularly throughout the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula of North Carolina.

Maya Lin’s dismantled ‘Ghost Forest’ to be reborn as boats

Maya Lin’s dismantled ‘Ghost Forest’ to be reborn as boats

Teenagers are making boats using the wood from her grove installation at Madison Square Park, and the artist is happy that the work is seeing a new life.
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Maya Lin keeps breaking new ground

Whether transplanting forests of dying trees or moving mounds of earth, the artist is pushing into new terrain 40 years after she burst onto the scene with her Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Ghost forests creep up U.S. East Coast

Stark white trees killed by climate change effects have been dubbed "ghost forests." New Jersey state officials and environmental groups are concerned that this ghost forest in Atlantic County is a harbinger of the impacts to come as saltwater pushes into land used for homes, farms and businesses.

In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the trees are talking back
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In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the trees are talking back

The installation in the heart of Madison Square Park is the artist’s memorial to another war — the one against nature.
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North Carolina ghost forests grow due to sea level rise
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North Carolina ghost forests grow due to sea level rise

Dead. Pale. Devoid of limbs. No, not the stars of horror stories, but families of trees sprawled across America's East Coast that are being swallowed by swarms of salty ocean water.

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