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 ...

While it isn’t winter yet, we have been getting hints that it is coming — frosty mornings, the bare branches of trees rattling in the wind and the bones of the Earth revealed as the vegetation dies ...

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 ...

In a past column I featured many of the locations where cliffs and bluffs can be found in Indiana. While the limestone and sandstone that form these natural features usually generate the most ...

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 ...

Mosses and lichens quietly shape the world around us. Hidden in the shaded corners of forests, draped across stone, and even tucked into city sidewalks, mosses and lichens quietly shape the world ...

One day last week I went to the Phoenixville area to do a hummingbird program, and it was interesting to see how more advanced the plants and trees along Route 100 South were than those back home.

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 ...

Giovanna Bishop will present her findings on Tuesday Nov. 23. The presentation will be held on Zoom. For more information visit dishmanhills.org/events-list ...

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 ...