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“Ghost forests” serve as haunting reminder of climate change. Here’s New Jersey’s action plan.
BRANDON GOLDNER / CBS NEWS – Deep in the heart of Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in Burlington County, New Jersey, where lush trees tower above streams gushing with water, is an area that symbolizes death.
It’s a large cluster of gray-colored, dead Atlantic White Cedar trees that make up a “ghost forest” …
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