Researchers from ETH Zurich are studying how alpine vegetation is responding to a warming climate—and how some plant communities are continuing to stand firm against newcomers from lower elevations. A ...
Botanists and ecologists have noticed changes in the northern Appalachian Mountains. More trees and small shrubs are growing ...
Three plants with very different lives — a wild rice hiding in Sri Lankan swamps, a saxifrage clinging to the highest ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As winter gives way to spring, the changes show most clearly in gardens at ground level. Persistent wet weather ...
Summer is here in the Alpine areas of Colorado! If you are out exploring these newly snow-free peaks, keep an eye out for some of the spectacular Alpine plants in bloom, including moss campion (Silene ...
Native Australian alpine plants may not be able to adapt or migrate quickly enough to survive rapid changes in climate change, a UNSW study has found. The study of 21 plants from Kosciuszko National ...
Perennial plants flower only when they have reached a certain age and been subjected to the cold. These two circumstances prevent the plant from starting to flower during winter. Botanists have now ...
・Saxifraga candelabrum, an alpine flowering plant from China, has been confirmed as carnivorous because it attracts, traps, digests, and absorbs nutrients from insects. ・Experiments showed digestive ...
Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I grow plants from anywhere, but garden somewhere. The heart of my somewhere is a pair of raised, slightly ...
The Alpine Garden is a broad plateau, high above the treeline on the eastern shoulder of Mout Washington. You can visit it this spring without having to climb to more than 4,000 feet.For $65, you can ...
A lover of wildflowers, my mother is 85 and has never set foot in an alpine flower garden, until this week.She never hiked, though she has loved to walk the flat, forested trails of New Hampshire for ...
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