The importance of hardiness zones lies in their ability to help gardeners and farmers choose plants that will thrive in their ...

For example: Maps generated by Climate Central show that as our climate has warmed due to heat-trapping carbon pollution, plant hardiness zones have shifted north toward higher latitudes and ...

the USDA cautions that “temperature updates to plant hardiness zones are not necessarily reflective of global climate change” according to a press release announcing the new map.

We’re at the precipice of a mass extinction, of all plants across the East Coast,” said Prof. Bethany Bradley of UMass. “If ...