Hikers across Vancouver Island say they've been finding entire forests with dying salal. No one knows why it's dying but the ramifications could be serious.
Spring blossoms, dusty streets, distant fires and a lack of rain combine to create hazardous respiratory conditions.
Pollen from birch trees was carried along with dust from the Sahara Desert on strong winds that originated in Eastern Europe.
A sharp decline in chestnut trees caused by a parasitic fungus in Russia's southern Krasnodar region is threatening the area's honey production, according to local beekeepers and scientists.
The closures of the campgrounds, facing the threat of falling trees, likely will last through summer, the state parks division said.
Alder catkins (the pollen-rich flowers on alder trees) haven't reached their peak yet, but there are a lot of them. There can be four to five million pollen particles in a single catkin.
Warm temperatures break 30 year record.
The winter holiday offers 15 degrees (C) of heat and spring flowers.
Dark water formed an eddy around Steve Eisenhauer's boots as they sank into the muck at the base of a 90-foot black gum tree so old, its roots were deep in this ground when the Pilgrims landed.
Large quantities of sargassum are likely to wash up on the beaches of Mexico’s Caribbean coast in 2019, according to a researcher.
Damage assessment underway due to fallen trees, hanging debris
One ecologist wonders, for the yellow cedar forests and the people who care about them, what comes after climate change and environmental loss in Southeast Alaska?
Some species have experienced a much greater decline than average. For the snowflake in Scandinavia there is talk of approx. 35 percent, patchwork 25 percent.
In the frigid waters of the Gulf of Finland, cyanobacteria has been observed for the first time during the winter months.
Mills in the heart of Canada's timber industry have fallen quieter this winter as wildfires and infestations made worse by climate change have made vast tracts of once valuable forest into barren stands of dead trees.
Typically these storms remain off the coast of Vancouver Island and we only see the frontal systems move ashore.
After frost comes spring, but when it happens in mid-November plants get confused. That is not good news.
From Belize to Barbados, tourist beaches have been swamped by huge tides of foul-smelling sargassum – and climate change could make the problem worse
Littoinen Lake made headlines in 2017 when it was chemically treated because it was overwhelmed with phosphorous and algae. Now there is a new problem.
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