The Science Near Me blog is a partnership between Discover magazine and ScienceNearMe.org.
Depending on where you live, climate change can feel like it’s something happening elsewhere, if at all. Warmer temperatures and wilder weather is something that lies in the future, or that’s affecting people halfway around the globe (or at least in another state).
But new data is uncovering the subtle, but profound ways the climate is already changing everywhere, and the impacts aren’t all natural disasters and rising seas. Even in temperate inland areas where a couple degrees of warming might not sound so bad to a casual observer, changes to the climate are apparent, if you know where to look.
In a recent study in the Journal of Ecology, a team led by scientists at Portland State University reports noteworthy changes in plant phenology — the timing of events like leafing out and flowering — in ...
