Above: This photo tells an entire story. Taken at Roan Mountain State Park in Tennessee in January, it shows most of the deciduous trees are bare. However, you can easily see the light tan colors of ...

Fall foliage color is produced by deciduous trees and shrubs. Up North, the spectacular fall color has long come and gone. Here in the Deep South, fall color is not as prominent, but we do see some.

One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...

Deciduous leaves change color as pigments degrade and synthesize before falling off their trees. Owen Reiser Every fall, the leaves of deciduous trees undergo a dramatic color change before forfeiting ...

The recreational pursuits of birding and wildflowering mostly involve finding and subsequently naming individual birds and wildflowers. As fun as those pursuits genuinely are, identity involves much ...

• Leaf optical properties impact leaf energy balance and thus leaf temperature. The effect of leaf development on mid-infrared (MIR) reflectance, and hence thermal emissivity, has not been ...

Conifers and other evergreens and even the bare deciduous trees create the winter wonderland we so enjoy in the Berkshires.