You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ORONO — About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that ...

Niwot Ridge is a place of grandeur. The mountains are tall and steep. The sky is bright and open. In this land, most people instinctively look up and out. A research group from the University of ...

Bear Lake is one of the most popular spots in Colorado. True, it’s a tourist trap, a place for people who can’t – or won’t – hike to see an alpine lake, and an overcrowded part of Rocky Mountain ...

Alpine plants are the jewels of the plant world. Beautiful but small, these plants grow best in a habitat that most resembles their native one. Most are at home nestled between rocky crags. No rocky ...

Now that we've all spent a month taking annoying little rocks out of our garden soil, let's talk about putting some big rocks in -- and about the amazing "rock stars" that thrive in environments we ...

Alpine plants such as the edelwiss could become extinct if summers continue to get warmer, scientist have warned. The cold-loving flowers are being forced higher up mountinsides by plants that thrive ...

Alpine ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate change, and many of them are already experiencing rapid warming that is associated with noticeable shifts in alpine vegetation. After previous ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For two nights in late January my garden lay under snow. I had not believed the forecast and had spent the ...

Historical migration patterns of boreal and alpine plants have had a narrow focus on the Korean Peninsula, generally being characterized as southern relics from northern-sourced populations. Here, we ...