“The rosy saxifrage is about as a native as you can get in the UK,” Robbie says, perched on a rock looking serenely out on this dramatic landscape. It is part of a family of mountain plants ...

ONE of the UK's rarest wildflowers has been planted out in Yorkshire thanks to the Wild Ingleborough programme.

Officials hope the new sensors will tell climbers when the ground is solid enough for safe ice climbing without harming the plants, which also include purple saxifrage and Arctic Mouse-ear.

Barry Saxifrage is Canada’s National Observer’s resident chart geek and climate analyst. In his visual carbon columns, Saxifrage deconstructs the data behind global warming and Canada’s climate ...