The glorious show of autumn color is transitioning to the familiar browns and barren trees that will continue through winter. Two Purdue experts recently offered advice on what to do with fallen ...

Every autumn, so-called leaf peepers journey to places like Colorado, Vermont and Massachusetts to take in colorful fall foliage. From coast to coast, green forests slide into shades of red ...

By spring, the leaves on trees grow and assume the color green, and by autumn, they change to sometimes brilliantly warm colors and fall. But why do they do that? Every fall season, nature lovers ...

Anthocyanin is the pigment that makes morning glories blue. Carotene makes carrots orange, and xanthophyll makes egg yokes yellow. Since production of these pigments depends on light, the leaves of ...

Chlorophyll is what makes leaves green. Leaves also contain carotenoids, which produce yellow, orange and brown colors. In the autumn, they begin to produce more anthocyanin , which gives them red ...

Garden leaves make good compost, but street leaves are too polluted. Fallen autumn leaves are a valuable resource – here’s how to make the most of them Home ...

A maple tree in Lee's Summit is in the middle of shedding its chlorophyll from its leaves in late October. Despite the weather conditions, Kansas City still has plenty of trees to admire.

Drought-like conditions may affect our fall season, but there is a way to track the leaves changing colors this autumn other than noticing on your morning commute.

An oak tree can produce leaves of different sizes from year to year, ... Red autumn leaves frame the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Perspective by John Kelly.