Source: Grist, 4/5/26
"Last month, Climate Central, a nonprofit specializing in communicating climate science, published an analysis that found that spring is trending to an earlier arrival from 1981 to 2025 in most of the United States. On average, leaves now emerge six days earlier than they did in 1981 in 88 percent, or 212 out of 242, of major U.S. cities. For example, in Lau's city of St. Joseph, Missouri, the spring leaves tend to arrive two days earlier. An earlier spring could have consequences for the agriculture industry, ecology, and more."