While this region is is getting a break in winter weather this month February, the beginning of the year brought some pretty frigid temperatures. "You may not think about your plants out in the lawn ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

When you’re shopping for trees, shrubs or perennials, the hardiness zone should be one of the first things you check.

Welcome to The World feature where you can navigate around Earth via continents and climate zones. It also highlights ... has to offer in terms of location, vegetation, wildlife and climate.

the structural properties of the soil in the root zone change so that water flows differently than we expected, and two, these altered climate conditions and soil properties cause the plants to ...

Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change.

Climate zones of the world The Equator is closer to ... They are home to many different animals and plants that have adapted to survive in the hot, dry conditions. Tropical rainforest regions ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a factor in the fires' intensity.