A warming tundra has seen unexpected shifts, raising the alarm about fragile ecosystems and those who rely on them ...

The Sinixt Confederacy and the ?aq'am Community and the Confederated Tribes of Colville Reservation have all contributed to ...

For thousands of years, lichens have quietly shaped Michigan’s landscapes—and their work is far from finished.

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In Iceland, the answer is mosses and lichens. Thousands of square miles, even beneath a coating of ice and snow during much of the year, are blanketed with thick, dark green mosses. A sprinkling ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.

Despite the red planet’s brutality, lichens that inhabit some of the harshest environments on Earth could possibly survive there. Lichens are symbionts, or two organisms that are in a ...

As a biologist from Northwest Alaska who has studied and observed the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, or WACH, for 36 years, I explain here why moving forward with the proposed road ignores caribou ...

At the risk of stealing my Indiecast co-host’s bit, the question isn’t whether Caribou has passed the Five Albums Test. If it’s just a matter of making five great albums in a row ...

Acquaint yourself with the iNaturalist app today and start discovering lichens and tiger beetles and beeches (oh my!). Interested in regular updates on the work of our Natural Systems group? Sign up ...

But the variety remains astonishing: By the end of the Inwood walk, on the last Sunday in February, the participants had found 83 species of fungi, lichens and slime, including one never ...