Climate Central: Along the mid-Atlantic coast, where waters are rising quickly, marshes are on the march, consuming forestland, farms and yards. "Habitats are changing fast here,' said Matt Whitbeck, a biologist at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, where dead trees still jut from young marshes.
Newly published modeling shows that a looming acceleration in sea level rise could further accelerate the spread of marshes worldwide.
A ghost forest in Bass River, N.J., where marshland is replacing...