Lush, fuzzy, delicious: the Georgia peach is a succulent state symbol. But human-caused climate change could spell doom for Georgia's peach crops - and the threat has begun to affect the area.

Despite being the peach state, Georgia only has the third-highest production yield of the crop behind South Carolina and California. Philippe Imbault Vecteezy Rising winter temperatures threaten ...

On a Monday morning in June, a few dozen peach pickers from the Mexican city of Guadalajara strode down rows of trees, in an orchard near Byron. They walked one to a side, covering each row of the ...

Shorter, milder winters are threatening the state's most celebrated fruit. Scientists and farmers have a plan to adapt. For more than 135 years, family owned and operated Pearson Farm has grown ...

Jim Markley’s 1,300 peach trees are usually so laden with fruit this time of year his workers take a Wiffle bat to the branches to thin out the crop, leaving thousands of tiny unripe peaches littering ...