Picture of two men with measuring tape in green landscape.

Nature is out of sync—and that’s reshaping everything, everywhere

Everything in nature—flowering, breeding, migration—lives and dies by a clock that is being recalibrated by climate change. We don’t yet know how severe the consequences may be.

Scientist David Inouye, at far right, in beige shirt, has spent 50 summers tracking flowers, hummingbirds, and insects in high-alpine meadows at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado, just outside Crested Butte. Here, Inouye and his scientist son, Brian Inouye, stretch a measuring tape across a research plot while other scientists catalog a field of aspen sunflowers.
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