Finding the tipping point for coastal wetlands Date: January 25, 2022 Source: Duke University Summary: Much of North Carolina's Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula lies just a few feet above sea level ...

GREENVILLE, S.C., January 10, 2022 /3BL Media/ - A nearly 800-acre property in Bertie and Hertford Counties in North Carolina has been permanently conserved thanks to a purchase by the North Caroli ...

A pair of satellite images from October 2005 and October 2024 show the spread of the dead trees in Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, home of the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.

On North Carolina’s Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, a combination of sea level rise, drought, and hurricane saltwater flooding has expanded ghost forests in recent decades. A large section near Manns ...

Wetland ecologist Melinda Martinez totes a portable gas analyzer on her back to measure the “tree farts” emitted by a ghost forest tree. A tube connects the gas analyzer to an airtight seal ...

Here is an example of the ditches and canals seen on U.S. 264 in Hyde County, near Lake Mattamuskeet. Saltwater works its way into the interior of the peninsula through this drainage network and chews ...

The Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula has an estimated 27 million tons of carbon stored in its trees and other biomass. Over a 35-year period, satellite imagery showed more than 10% of the area’s tree ...

Wetland forests sequester and store large quantities of carbon, so forest die-offs also contribute to further climate change. Researcher Emily Ury measuring soil salinity in a ghost forest. Emily ...

In the 2016 National Wetland Condition Assessment, a federal survey of the nation’s wetlands, Amanda Nahlik, an ecologist and biogeochemist in the Office of Research and Development at the ...

The Enviva Forest Conservation Fund is a $5 million, 10-year program established by Enviva in December 2015 to protect environmentally sensitive bottomland and wetland forests. Administered by the U.S ...