It happens every year around this time - the leaves on the trees begin to turn red, orange and yellow as we head into the ...

It's fall and the trees are beginning their annual display of spectacular colors. Ever wonder where these colors come from?

Sept. 22 is the first day of autumn and some of our trees are beginning to show it. We tend to associate fall colors and ...

The xanthophyll violaxanthin is converted to zeaxanthin (via the intermediate antheraxanthin) whenever chloroplasts absorb excess light. Zeaxanthin acts as a key facilitator of the dissipation of ...

Yellow corn and alfalfa both contain xanthophyll, a pigment that's passed on to the eggs. It's a type of carotenoid pigment, ...

As summer comes to an end and the days grow shorter, trees will soon start to display their annual color show, creating a ...

Anthocyanin is the pigment responsible for red, purple and blue colours because it absorbs blue, blue-green and green from ...

The first fall foliage report of the season was released on Wednesday. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and ...

What is spirulina? The nutritious blue-green algae is having a moment, here's everything you need to know about spirulina and ...

The key mechanism for thermal dissipation involves a group of yellow (xanthophyll) pigments, specific ones of which facilitate the harmless dissipation of excess energy from photosynthesis' light ...

Along with the green pigment are yellow to orange pigments, carotenes and xanthophyll pigments which, for example, give the orange color to a carrot. Most of the year these colors are masked by great ...

The fall foliage is not far off from putting on a spectacular show. In this edition of Josh's Weather Academy, Josh explains ...