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Skiers practice cross-country skiing drills on Bagely Hill in Duluth, Minnesota. (Courtesy University of Minnesota Duluth)

The Big Fat Puzzle

Can cold melt fat?

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Scientists and citizen volunteers are observing first bloom and first leaf dates of lilacs and other plants to gather data on the timing of spring.

Seeing Climate through the Lives of Plants

Ground observers and satellites monitor plant life cycles and the timing of seasons.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

A National Guard member opens a portable military water tank

Out of Africa

Researchers revise the story behind Puerto Rico’s 2015 drought.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Frost clings to an eddy covariance tower in Barrow, Alaska.

In the Arctic Darkness

Beneath a frozen surface, stirrings.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

This FLUXNET tower is one of many worldwide that scientists have erected to constantly monitor landscape health and productivity.

Grasping the Subtle Needs of Vegetation

Researchers seek to understand the invisible ingredients that make plants thrive.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Photograph of tree canopy in Missouri damaged by a late spring freeze in April 2007

Freezing in a Warming World

The Easter Freeze of 2007 provides clues to the future of plants.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

A Bedouin shepherd tends his sheep amid a parched landscape in Syria. (Courtesy J. Werner)

Crisis in the Crescent

Drought turns the Fertile Crescent into a dust bowl.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

Honeybees are helping remote sensing scientists understand how earlier spring arrival might affect plant-pollinator relationships.

Clues in the Nectar

Honeybees signal a worrisome trend in plant-pollinator relationships.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

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