Record-Breaking Weather At Walden Pond Testing Limits Of Spring-Blooming Plants
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - 17:30
in Earth & Climate
With record-breaking warm spring weather in 2010 and 2012 resulting in the earliest known flowering times in 161 years of recorded history in two U.S. locations, according to a new Boston University-initiated study published today, scientists now are pondering if at some point plants will be unable to successfully keep adapting to a changing climate.