During fall time, we only hand pick when the blackberries turn brown. As I was picking I saw this wild iris, like it bloomed just a few days ago. I was very awed to see this flower in October.

The Tongass Forest in southeast Alaska, a temperate rain forest, is experiencing record-low precipitation and severe drought conditions, impacting community hydroelectricity production.

Weather conditions including drought are effecting vegetation in Punjab and other areas of Pakistan.

The latest tally of beetle kill shows more than 550,000 acres of forest with dead spruce from the ongoing infestation this year alone, much of it in Mat-Su.

Delphiniums (Delphinium glaucum) are still growing late in to the season.

Fireweed blooming in mid-late September after other plants have gone to seed.

Spruce branch girdling causing discoloration in tree.

Discolored spruce (Picea sitchensis) needles

Farmers in Edmonton and into northern Alberta, still have plenty of crop out on the fields and the early arrival of winter conditions does not bode well for harvest season.

Prickly rose plant is blooming when others have gone to hips.

Unusually warm September temperatures.

"They are extremely fresh-looking, as if it were the springtime."

South Florida beaches faced a sargassum assault this summer that some scientists believe is part of the largest spread of the nomadic marine weed on record, and one that could continue through September.

NOAA and NASA satellites measured an average sea-surface temperature of 68.93 degrees Fahrenheit in the Gulf of Maine on Aug. 8, only 0.05 degrees below the all-time record high of 68.98 set in 2012. It is the epicenter of the U.S. lobster fishing industry, an important feeding ground for rare North Atlantic right whales .

The past couple years have been warmer than normal contributing to where the river is still flowing ice and with some of the plants still green.

As climate change fuels large wildfires, the pollution they're releasing is making Americans sick and undermining decades of progress in cleaning the air.

Founder Håkan Hansson convinced this is the world’s new wine region.