Everglades National Park

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NASA Researchers Study Coastal Wetlands, Champions of Carbon Capture

Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor’s Center at the foot of Florida’s Everglades National Park, there was once a thriving mangrove population — part of the largest stand of mangroves in the Western Hemisphere. Now, the skeletal remains of the trees form one of the Everglades’ largest ghost forests. When Hurricane Irma made landfall in September 2017 as a…