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 ...

How to create the perfect alpine container - Easy displays can be made to bring colour to late spring and early summer.

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 ...

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 ...

A project is underway to see how resilient the plants are.

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 ...

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 ...