Springtime Will Be Complicated

Explore how early spring in New England is a growing trend influenced by our carbon addiction. Discover more in Wired.com.

Written byCarl Zimmer
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This is a new and fascinating map. It shows how next spring is probably going to come early here in New England, as it has come earlier and earlier for the past few decades. But in Florida it will probably come late. Both changes stem from the same source: our carbon addiction. I explain why in my first foray in a new column for Wired.com called Dissection. The column, on all manner of science, will come out every other Friday. Let me know what you think, there or here. Greenup of the Planet Is Not Black-and-White

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