When picking plants to grow in your garden, it’s easy to just go with what you like or whatever plants your neighbors grow.

THE CONVERSATION — With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked ...

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

As climate change warms the Earth, plant hardiness zones are shifting northward. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its plant hardiness zone map, which shows where various plants will ...

James R. Kellner, Joseph Kendrick, Dov F. Sax. High-velocity upward shifts in vegetation are ubiquitous in mountains of western North America. PLOS Climate , 2023; 2 (2): e0000071 DOI: 10.1371 ...

Climate change is affecting every ... With the arrival of springin North America, ... 15 degrees F (8.3 C) – over the same 30-year window. This warming changes the zones in which plants, ...

In mountainous western North America, vegetation cover has moved upward at a rapid rate over the past several decades, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by James R. Keller at Brown ...

Arenal Volcano is an active volcano in Costa Rica, which is in the south part of North America. It is famous for an intense eruption period, which lasted from 1968 until 2010 - more than 40 years.

Millions of acres scorched by wildfires in the Western US and Canada — an area roughly the size of South Carolina — can be traced back to carbon pollution from the world’s largest fossil ...

Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – here’s what that could mean for your garden Published: March 22, 2024 8:34am EDT Matt Kasson , West Virginia University ...