Washington Warming to Southern Plants
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A warming climate in the Washington area is beginning to affect the area's trees, with cold-loving species finding the weather less welcoming and southern transplants thriving, according to findings released yesterday by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--The Coast's embattled urban trees are about to receive two types of help on Friday.
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Vegetation thrives on moisture and when you add an increase of nitrogen and complements of lightning, the greenery gets even greener. The May issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports poison ivy is expected to get a lot itchier because of global warming.
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By Rick Steelhammer, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 24--In a brisk September breeze, fluffy white heads of cotton grass, more often associated with Arctic terrain, sway on long stems atop lumpy tussocks of vegetation rising from the open expanse of tundra-like peat bog.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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Â·  No rain forecast in south of state until September Â·  Sprinklers and car washing could be stopped
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By Ginny Skalski, The Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, S.C.  Jun. 26--CommentsCutting down trees may become a bigger faux pas in southern Beaufort County.
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Higher temperatures, rapid precipitation shifts, and accelerated blooming and breeding patterns are changing the Southwest.
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By Gina Smith, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb.
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By Courtney Sherwood, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb.
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Affected by a weak El Nino, winter  weather in the United States will be warmer in the West and  cooler and wetter in the South and Southeast, forecasters  predicted Thursday.
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By Todd Silberman, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 11--No matter how parched the Triangle gets this summer, no matter how tough the rules on watering, the lawns in Cary's Wessex neighborhood will be a lush green.
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By By Brian Hendrickson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun.
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By BOB HAYWOOD  A QUIET revolution among the birds and the bees is changing the face of wildlife in the Midlands.   This year's blazing hot summer - against a background of global warming - has brought exotic new species to the region which have not been seen for centuries, or ever.
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Oct. 13 - Mount St. Helens is heating up as magma continues to push the volcano&#39;s lava dome upwards. Temperatures in the crater of the Washington state volcano have risen to above 1,000 degrees fahrenheit in recent days.