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Rampikes Make Sea Level Rise Visible
- Rampikes are standing dead trees killed by saltwater intrusion and serve as visible markers of sea level rise.
- Elizabeth Rush uses rampikes as a metaphor to show vulnerability and prompt the question: do you stay or do you go?.
Marshes Flip From Buffer To Carbon Source
- Tidal marshes act as coastal shock absorbers and carbon sinks that buffer waves and store carbon in their roots.
- When inundation increases, marsh roots rot and the marsh can flip from sequestering carbon to emitting methane.
Sea Level Rise Reaches Mountain Birds
- Rush traveled to the Oregon Cascades and found coastal tidal wetlands' decline affected mountain-breeding migratory birds.
- Birds that breed at high elevations depend on tidal marsh stopovers, so coastal loss reverberates inland and uphill.