Author: Andrew Hacket-Pain, Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool

cashcashcash/Shutterstock People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren’t the only species to take mark June 21 as a special time. Studies are showing the summer solstice is an important cue for plants too. Recent studies, including one of my own, have proposed that trees may use […]