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2019-2024 Articles
2019-2024 Articles
Plants and Their Pollinators Are Increasingly Out of Sync 0724
Impacts of Feral Cats Rise with Heat 0424
Earlier Springs Have Cascading Effects on Animals, Plants and Pastimes 0324
Spring Is Arriving Earlier. Find Out How It’s Changed in Your Town. 0324
Arctic Wildlife Faces Dire Challenges amid Record Heat and Ecosystem Changes 0224
Earlier Springtimes Are Driving Some Birds to Extinction 0723
Parts of US See Earliest Spring Conditions on Record 0223
Maple Producers Tap Trees as High Temperatures Cause Early Runs 0223
19th-Century Records Show Climate Change Makes Plants Flower Earlier 0123
How Climate Change Disrupts Fall Foliage 1022
Global Warming Causing Great Tit Birds to Hatch a Month Earlier 0422
How Climate Change Plays Havoc on Hibernating Animals 0222
Scientists Are Finding Solutions to Climate Change’s Threats to Our Food Security 0721 - Plants keep track of time of day by a combination of sunlight and temperature. Rising temperatures throw off their circadian rhythm.
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Arctic Tundra Will See an Earlier Green-Up and Longer Growing Seasons 0621
Record-Warm Arctic Summer Did Not Bring Joy to Wildlife 0820
Qamanirjuaq Caribou Adapt to Early Spring in Nunavut province, Canada 0520
In a Race Against Global Warming, Robins Are Migrating Earlier 0420
Mild Winter Spurs Bears to Emerge from Hibernation Earlier 0320
Spring Arrives Earlier than Ever Recorded in Southern US 0320
Climate Change May Be Making Deer Evolve to Give Birth Earlier 1119
Alpine Climate Change Is Disrupting Everything from How Water Flows to When Plants Flower 1019
Many Animals Can’t Adapt Fast Enough to Climate Change 0719
Climate Change Makes Berries Ripen Faster. That's Bad News for Bears 0419
Great Lakes Basin Warming Faster than Other Parts of the US 0319
2015-2018 Articles
2015-2018 Articles
The Baltic Sea Offers a Preview of What’s to Come with Global Warming 1218
Climate Change is Moving New England’s Leaf Peeping Calendar 1018
Is It Time Yet? Climate Change Disturbs Breeding and Nesting Season in Birds 0718
Looking for Signs of Global Warming? They’re All around You. 0618
Unusually Hot Spring Threw Plants, Pollinators Out of Sync in Europe 0618
Japan’s Cherry Blossoms Peaking Early, due to Warmer March, Climate Change 0518
Seabirds Not Adapting to Shifting Climate 0418
Spring’s Early Arrival for Much of the US Is Gorgeous, but Concerning 0218
100s of UK Wildflower Species Found Blooming in Mid-Winter 0118
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Spring Foliage Appearing Too Early in the Alps? 1217
California Birds Nesting Earlier to Try to Survive Global Warming 1117
Climate Change Is Making Winter Start Later and Later 1017
How Climate Change Canceled the Grizzly Salmon Run 0817
Why the Arctic’s Mosquito Problem Is Getting Bigger, Badder 0817
Climate Change Is Disrupting the Birds and the Bees 0817
Warmer Ocean Brings Changes to Rhode Island, Wreaks Havoc on Ecosystem 0617
Grassland Lab Warming Raises Species Loss Alarm 0317
U.S. Geological Survey Hails an Early Spring — and Ties It to Climate Change 0217
Early Flowering of Rhododendrons Signals Climate Change in Uttarakhand 0217
Himalayan Bloom Brings Spring Forward 0117
Climate Change Driving Birds to Migrate Early, Research Reveals 1216
Warming Triggers Early Algae Blooms, Potential Ripple Effects to Come 1016
Climate Change Is Causing Earlier Springs in National Parks 1016
Birds Beating Global Warming by Adjusting Their Egg-Laying Times 0516
Hunters See Climate Changing Their Traditions 0415
Signs of Spring 'Shifting' in Trees 0315
Hay Fever Season Becoming Longer, More Intense with Climate Change 0215
Yellowstone Grizzlies Exiting Winter Hibernation Early, Amid Mild Weather 0215
Earlier Spring, Later Fall Could Mean 240 Days of Summer 1114
The end of the US growing season is when satellites see the overall greenness of foliage start to decline.
This shows a trend for end of growing season 9 days later over 36 years.
2014 and earlier Articles
2014 and earlier Articles
Is It Spring Already? Frogspawn Seen in Cornwall 4 Months Early 1114
CO2 Makes Growing Seasons Longer 0414
Early Springs Surprise Many Species 0414
Dull Leaf Hues Called Climate Change Omen 1113
Foliage Season Under Fire from Climate Change 1013
Global Warming Threatens Hudson Bay Lowlands Arctic Refuge 1013
Can Long-Distance Migrating Shorebird Survive? 1013
Climate Change Leaves Hares Wearing The Wrong Colors 0913
Long Migrating Birds Are Climate Change Casualty 0713
More Vultures, Fewer Swallows – Blame Climate Change 0613
Climate Change Threatens New England Birds 0613
Climate Change Keeping Early Birds from Getting Worms 0613
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A Science of Signs of Spring 0313
Nature Adapts to Shifting Seasons 0213
Spring Has Sprung Early in Orlando 0113
Earliest Blooms Recorded in US 0113
Autumn Onset Comes Later in US 1012
Delay of Bloom Blamed on Climate Change 0512
Ecological Partnerships are Getting Out of Sync 0512
Plants Flower Faster Than Climate Models Predict 0512
Arctic Plankton Blooming 50 Days Earlier than 14 Years Ago 0311
Foliage Season Under Fire from Climate Change 1013
At left, Concord MA, starting with Thoreau journals ~1850, and Boston MA
from Polgar, C.A, R.B Primack, E. Williams, S. Stichter, and C. Hitchcock. 2013. "The effect of temperature on the timing of the adult flight period of Lycenid butterflies in Massachusetts." Biological Conservation 160: 25-31
At right, England,
from Amano et al. (2010).
Spring Arrives Earlier, Fall Comes Later 0312
From IPCC, 2007. Many-species studies found (averages of range endpoints used) 0.8, 1.6, 4.5, 2.5, 2.85, 4.4, 3.1, 3.15, 6.3, and 0.45 days per decade earlier blooms or arrivals. Grand average of these is 3.0 days per decade earlier.
Flowering Plants Bloom Earlier with Warming 0410 - Average is about 3.5 days/decade earlier.
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