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Climate summit hopes - but will leaders deliver?

The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, a mid-Atlantic state in the US, has been turned into a ghost forest by the relentless creep of a rising sea accelerated by the melting of the Arctic.
The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, a mid-Atlantic state in the US, has been turned into a ghost forest by the relentless creep of a rising sea accelerated by the melting of the Arctic. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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Less than a two-hour drive from Washington, along the shores of the storied Chesapeake Bay, you can see, touch and smell the dying trees.

The "ghost forests" of the Atlantic coast, killed by the relentless creep of a rising sea accelerated by the melting of the Arctic, are spreading.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on April 17, 2021, with the headline Climate summit hopes - but will leaders deliver?. Subscribe