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Forests are dying along North Carolina's coast—and it's speeding up
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File:Hubble- Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole (APOD 2026-09-08).jpg / NASA / Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble-_Decagon_Around_Saturn%27s_South_Pole_(APOD_2026-09-08).jpgSource pageWhat happened
A new study finds that coastal forest loss in North Carolina's Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula began accelerating after 2010 and may still be speeding up. The study also found that North Carolina lost more than 20% of its coastal forest between 1985 and 2021.
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- The study also — found: that North Carolina lost more than 20% of its coastal forest between 1985 and 2021
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Forests are dying along North Carolina's coast—and it's speeding up ↗
https://phys.org/news/2026-10-forests-dying-north-carolina-coast.html