Since mid-July, I’ve noticed something strange in several maple trees I’ve driven by: their leaves are starting to show fall color! Sometimes it’s just the tips of the branches turning red or yellow; ...

This is the time of year when Nicole Hughes gets constantly distracted by the fall foliage as she drives around North Carolina. "I'm always looking," says Hughes, a biologist at High Point University.

The forests of Indiana are a glory this time of year. Lumbering catalpa trees growing above Indianapolis homes are starting to fade into gold and the forests of Brown County have fallen into a vibrant ...

July is only just about to end, but fall colors have already begun to appear in spots around the Twin Cities metro. In Plymouth, a number of maple trees have already had leaves turn to the familiar ...

Fallen leaves show their autumn colors as they float on a puddle on a rainy morning in Overland Park, Kan. Researchers have yet to agree on why some trees' leaves go to the trouble of turning red ...