Michele Metych
Michele Metych
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
BIOGRAPHY

Michele has a B.A. in English from Southeast Missouri State University and an M.A. from DePaul University. She's a Chicago girl at heart, but she still misses living in a place with farms. When she's not editing, reading, or researching, she travels every chance she gets.

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Ghost forest
Ghost forests are likely not filled with ghosts, but they should probably scare us. A ghost forest is a stand of dead and decaying trees, an eerie sight that serves as a dramatic warning of a growing problem within the global ecosystem. Ghost forests form when the ocean rises and floods coastal…
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