Every year in August the Provence town of Sault is drenched in the scent of lavender. Mothers and their babies, schoolchildren, cranky old men and their dogs, everybody smells of lavender. In Sault, ...

Every summer, millions of travelers venture to the sun-drenched French region of Provence. One of its biggest draws? Symmetrical fields of sweet-scented, violet-hued lavender. Images of them light up ...

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 ...

Deep below the once purple but now wintering and dormant fields of Provençal lavender, something is rotten. It will not make itself known until spring and summer, when the cicadas – another symbol of ...