When you think of alpine plants, it might seem like a niche horticultural club, requiring lots of expertise and specialist composts. Certainly, you’ll find a few ...

Glacier buttercup, Ranunculus glacialis, in front of the Rutor glacier, Italy. (Photo courtesy G. Losapio and co-authors) Scientists studying the effects of glacial melt say a quarter of alpine flower ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ORONO — About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that ...

The higher on a mountain you climb, the smaller the plants you find. Considering the conditions at high altitudes, I can't blame alpine plants for keeping a low profile and forming small clumps and ...

Like the movie version of Spider-Man who shoots spider webs from holes in his wrists, a little alpine plant has been found to eject cobweb-like threads from tiny holes in specialized cells on its ...

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 ...

Robert Baxter receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. High up on a mountain where winds are too fierce, temperatures too extreme and soils too poor for ...

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 ...

Camouflage is a common defensive strategy among animals. By modifying their coloration and patterning, animals evade predators or ambush prey. Notably, more than 40% of alpine plant species in the ...