YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- After exploration by millions of visitors over the past 100 years, it's hard to imagine anything left to discover amid the majesty of Yosemite's glacier-cut granite ...
Most planetary scientists agree that Mars’ extreme conditions would be uninhabitable to life as we know it. New research, however, suggests that we might be underestimating the hardiness of lichens.
Lichen is everywhere. It grows on sidewalks, rocks, trees, roofs and in frigid tundras, arid deserts and even contaminated environments. You just have to look for it, says lichenologist and Eastern ...
Researchers with the Nature Trust of New Brunswick are on the hunt for four different types of lichens and they’ve found one – in an unusual spot. The scaly fringe lichen, known scientifically as ...
The new saxicolous species introduced by Josiah Lowe from his collections from the Adirondack Mountains, New York are reassessed. Lecidea albonigra J. Lowe, L ...
Lichens cover about 6% of the world’s land surface. You’ve probably noticed them growing in the shade on rocks. The thallus of a lichen is considered the lichen’s body, not including the parts ...
One of the great infrastructure challenges of the next few decades is to figure out which coastal sites should be abandoned and which can be saved. Lichens can help. By Ian Rose / Hakai Magazine ...
All winter, I stared at my magnolia tree’s bare branches, wishing for spring. Except, when I looked closely, I saw that the branches weren’t bare. While I waited for green leaves and pink blossoms, I ...
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