Summer is here in the Alpine areas of Colorado! If you are out exploring these newly snow-free peaks, keep an eye out for some of the spectacular Alpine plants in bloom, including moss campion (Silene ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich are studying how alpine vegetation is responding to a warming climate—and how some plant communities are continuing to stand firm against newcomers from lower elevations. A ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As winter gives way to spring, the changes show most clearly in gardens at ground level. Persistent wet weather ...

The climate is warming increasingly quickly, especially in the Alps, which poses a challenge for organisms. If they do not spread to higher altitudes, they must very quickly adapt to higher ...

Perennial plants flower only when they have reached a certain age and been subjected to the cold. These two circumstances prevent the plant from starting to flower during winter. Botanists have now ...

The Alpine Garden is a broad plateau, high above the treeline on the eastern shoulder of Mout Washington. You can visit it this spring without having to climb to more than 4,000 feet.For $65, you can ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I grow plants from anywhere, but garden somewhere. The heart of my somewhere is a pair of raised, slightly ...

This summer, undergraduate students Max Wasser and Grace Kendziorski are spending time hiking in the mountains—and trapping pikas and counting flowers. CU Boulder student Grace Kendziorski studies the ...

A lover of wildflowers, my mother is 85 and has never set foot in an alpine flower garden, until this week.She never hiked, though she has loved to walk the flat, forested trails of New Hampshire for ...

Researchers have studied how two characteristic Arctic-alpine plant species respond to global warming. They did this by analyzing almost 500 million of their own readings from the mountainous region ...

At 17,769ft, the Thorong La Pass at the northern tip of the Annapurna Sanctuary in Nepal is one of the highest points accessible in the country before you need crampons and an ice pick. On my way ...

‘Escalator to extinction’ means aggressive species will eventually take over, threatening the entire mountain ecosystem Alpine flowers could go extinct after glaciers disappear as more competitive ...