{"id":24764,"date":"2022-10-12T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24764"},"modified":"2022-10-12T20:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:43:31","slug":"why-do-leaves-change-color-in-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/10\/why-do-leaves-change-color-in-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do leaves change color in the fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am attending the EDEN (Extension Disaster Education Network) annual meeting up in Grand Rapids, MI, this week (my hometown!). I have been enjoying all of the colors of the trees, especially the sugar maples that are fiery red\/orange at peak color. Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/why-do-tree-leaves-change-color-in-fall\/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=5074e97ce0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-5074e97ce0-393619445&amp;mc_cid=5074e97ce0&amp;mc_eid=b22da16cce\">story from <em>EarthSky<\/em><\/a> explaining why the leaves change color. In the Southeast, we have a few weeks to go before we hit the peak color, and with fewer maples, we don&#8217;t often see that glowing red. Fortunately, there are plenty of pictures online, even if they don&#8217;t quite match seeing it in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/sugar-maple-fall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/sugar-maple-fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/sugar-maple-fall.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/sugar-maple-fall-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: www.ForestWander.com, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am attending the EDEN (Extension Disaster Education Network) annual meeting up in Grand Rapids, MI, this week (my hometown!). I have been enjoying all of the colors of the trees, especially the sugar maples that are fiery red\/orange at peak color. Here is a story from EarthSky explaining why the leaves change color. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":24765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24766,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764\/revisions\/24766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}