TOLEDO, Ohio — The fall season is quickly wrapping up and, as the winter chill inches closer, the life cycle of fall colors will end, leaving trees with only their branches left to stand. Throughout ...

Frederic Edwin Church, “Autumn Woods,” ca. 1870, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, gift of Louis P. Church Autumnal leaves in vibrant hues are a beautiful part of the season, but those leaves ...

Before the advent of pumpkin spice lattes and Halloween decorations, the most reliable indication of autumn’s arrival lay in the tree canopy as its greens gave way to yellows and reds and its leaves ...

Behind every autumn leaf lies a chemical shift-chlorophyll fading, carotenoids glowing, anthocyanins rising-that turns survival into spectacle. Every autumn, landscapes across much of the world ...

Leaves often turn brilliant colors in autumn. One of those colors has generated a lot of heated debate among scientists in recent years. Autumn is a big time for trees. Many shed their leaves, and of ...

Forget New England — if Michigan is within a day's drive from your home, head to the Mitten State for some of the country's finest autumn leaf peeping. If you live in Michigan, puff your chests up ...