Holly Jones started studying the micro-climate and the topography on her family farm near Crawfordsville, about 40 miles ...

As climate change warms the Earth, plant hardiness zones are shifting northward. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its plant hardiness zone map, which shows where various plants will ...

New Jersey officials are tinkering with the state’s ambitious climate regulations amid a housing crisis. Activists say that ...

Climate Connection: Plant hardiness 03:52. The United States is divided into 13 different plant hardiness zones, each with "A" and "B" subdivisions.This is a number assigned to a plant that tells ...

The Sunset climate zone map for gardening was devised in the mid-20th century for 13 Western states. It has been expanded to include areas across the U.S., providing a more useful alternative to ...

Credit: Prism Climate Group, Oregon State University, CC BY-ND. On the 2012 map, ... New hardiness zone map will help US gardeners keep pace with climate change. Nov 18, 2023.

Christopher Daly, a senior research professor at Oregon State University who helped develop the Agriculture Department’s 2012 map, noted that, while growing zones may be gradually pushing ...

It divides the United States into planting zones using the numbers 0 through 13 where each one is 10°F warmer (or colder) in an average winter than the adjacent zone, as well as increments of 5 ...

Dr Stephen Vermette of Buffalo State College has completed the first phase of his research by creating five climate zones in Western New York.

Towns across the U.S. want to stop building homes that are vulnerable to climate-driven disasters, like wildfires, floods and droughts. It's easier said than done.

We've got two different sets of 30 years that we're looking at, whether we look at the 2012 or 2023 map. So, that is classic, textbook definition of climate change," said conservation agronomist Hans ...

The 2023 USDA plant hardiness zone map shows the areas where plants can be expected to grow, based on extreme winter temperatures. ... Prism Climate Group, Oregon State University, CC BY-ND.