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KOMPAS.com – Effects climate change more and more plastered real. One of the evidence can be seen in a Forest shelter in North Carolina.

Researchers found that tens of thousands of hectares of greenery in the forests of North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge died in the past three decades leaving only stalks. tree gray and leafless.

That means about 11 percent of the tree cover in the forest.

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This then made the once beautiful forest area, like a lifeless ghost forest.

As quoted from Live Science, Friday (9/4/2021) the ghost forest was formed as a result of sea ​​level rise which exposes more land to salty seawater and removes moisture from seeds and soil.

These findings were obtained after researchers from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina analyzed thousands of NASA Landsat satellite images taken between 1985 and 2019.

Researchers calculated that more than 8,500 hectares of trees in the forest died during this period.

In fact, the dead forest is located 1 kilometer from the nearest beach, making them actually far from the reach of the high tide.

Even so, there are other factors that contribute to the death of the forest. One of them is wave storm who joined Storm Irene in 2011 ago.

During the wave, a wall of water 1.8 meters high gushed over 2 km into the forest area and flooded what was near it.

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The effects themselves, such as an area with dying and dying trees, are clearly visible from outer space.

North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is still recovering from the storm.

As global sea levels rise in response to climate change, storm surges like Irene are expected to become even more destructive and result in greater flooding.

So these lessons learned in North Carolina could help scientists predict and manage the devastating effects of future storm surges around the world.

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