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Climate change shifting European seasons
25/Aug/2006: Spring is arriving sooner and autumn is starting later because of climate change, according to a study of more than 500 plants and animals across Europe.
Scientists found that events associated with the start of spring - such as the flowering and leafing of plants and activities of certain animal species - were now appearing six to eight days earlier across the continent than they did 30 years ago.
Britain saw an even more dramatic change, with spring events happening 10 days earlier and particular species seeing even earlier flowerings. Wild cherry trees are now flowering two weeks earlier than they did in the 1970s.
The study of 542 plants and 19 animals from 1971 to 2000 found 78% of plants flowering, leafing and fruiting earlier, with only 3% waiting longer before the spring change.
There was also a marked delay in the arrival of autumn, which arrived an average three days later across the 21 countries surveyed.
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