The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Nov. 14—Obscured by the fog of deep time — an incomprehensible 250 million years ago — two organisms formed a ...

image: During the Ordovician period, the concentration of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people mistakenly think they’re plants, but lichens are weird composite organisms – and Australia has a lot of them.

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 ...

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 ...