Lichens and mosses live everywhere they can! They prefer moist areas, and happily live in aquatic and marine environments. By the ocean, lichen forms vivid orange streaks on sea-side rocks. In ...

During the Ordovician period, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Over the winter I re-read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book “Gathering Moss,” ...

Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable -- if you're a moss in the Mojave Desert. A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Once I got the last of the garden leeks harvested, I started paying ...

Last Thursday the weather forecast was for some approaching overnight snow. So once again I took a cold walk through our fields. It’s that time of the winter when finding or seeing anything unusual or ...

As we near winter and the forest begins to shut down – photosynthesis is over for most deciduous trees and is slowing down for the conifers – leaves drop, animals have either fled south or are finding ...

If winter's duller palette leaves you yearning for color and flowers have yet to emerge, look more closely on an early spring walk, run or hike. Lichen, with its array of electric orange, green and ...

Banner image: William Weber, a professor emeritus at CU Boulder, has received three lifetime achievement awards for his research on lichens and mosses. (Credit: AC Violet, CU Boulder Libraries) ...

Desert conditions are harsh, and mosses often spend much of the year in a dormant condition, desiccated and brown, until rain comes. Researchers discovered two species of moss that found a hiding ...