From golden yellow in spring to fiery red and orange in autumn, this compact Abelia brings dramatic, every-changing color to the garden. Few shrubs are as versatile in the landscape as Abelia. These ...

These predictable patterns are becoming less reliable as climate change alters seasonal timelines. Winters are starting later ...

A century of records shows Colorado’s Pikes Peak flowers now bloom up to 17 days earlier, revealing how warming disrupts ...

For tens of thousands of years, humans have observed the minute seasonal changes that make or break a harvest. Now, for the first time, satellites have caught up. A study published this week in Nature ...

After walking through the lush forest along the Saco River, it would be easy to overlook two tiny shrubs bursting from the gravel on the river’s bank. The silverling and the hudsonia, already rare ...

Peatlands are among the world's most important yet underappreciated ecosystems. They are a type of wetland that covers a ...

Johanna Schmitt, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is a plant geneticist and evolutionary ecologist. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...