"Clear Evidence Of Climate Change" Affecting Numbers And Range Of Britain's Flowers...

"Clear Evidence Of Climate Change" Affecting Numbers And Range Of Britain's Flowers...

It is not only in the icefields and glaciers of the Arctic, visited in a blaze of publicity last week by the Tory leader David Cameron, that the signs of global warming can be found.

Here comes a different-looking British countryside; clear evidence of climate change affecting the numbers and range of Britain's wild flowers has been found for the first time.

In some cases, the movement has been a positive one. Two of Britain's loveliest wild orchids have shown surprising increases over the past two decades, and leading botanists believe that the warming climate is responsible.

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