The coastlines of Oregon and Washington take many different forms: sandy beaches, rocky headlands, marshy flats, and swampy tidal forests of salt-tolerant Sitka spruce. These tidal swamps were once ...

Tidal forests — those swampy, woody wetlands packed with dense vegetation along the Pacific Northwest coastline — have recently emerged as carbon storage powerhouses, a recent study found. Why it ...

Sunlight filters through the canopy of pines, holly, sweet gum, and red maple while bird calls echo in the distance. These coastal forests may seem like others in the Mid-Atlantic, but a hidden ...

In recent decades, climate change has modified the growth of forests, mainly due to increasing temperature and altered ...

Everett, Richard A., Hines, Anson H., Ruiz, Gregory M., and Todd, Albert H. 1994. "Shoreline forests along tidal reaches of Chesapeake Bay do provide environmental ...

When trees in coastal areas die a graveyard of dead trees—known as a ‘ghost forest’ is left behind. Salt-tolerant marsh plants take root and form a green carpet below the remains of the once-thriving ...