Despite lingering winter weather, lengthening days are triggering early signs of spring in nature. Phenology is the science of how natural cycles, like animal breeding and plant growth, respond to ...

The weakening La Nina alters spring, in a useful sense: the broad, winterish pattern around which temperature and storms tracks have been running is no longer as predictable, and regional variations ...

The spring equinox will happen soon. There are two types of spring - astronomical spring, and meteorological spring. This winter has been cold, but not one of the coldest in Massachusetts history. If ...

You may be bundled up right now, but spring is just around the corner. The astronomical first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere is marked by the spring equinox, which lands on March 20, ...