Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has become a symbol of Provence in southern France, but there is a warning that it’s under threat from climate change. Lavender ...

With its swathes of waving blue flowers, delicious scent and squadrons of butterflies and bees, I am standing in a field that could be in Provence in the South of France. A great plantation of ...

Here and there in the highest plateaus of Haute-Provence, the heady scent of lavender still mixes with sun-baked pine, as tractors slice through last of the season's purple flowers. But the harvest is ...