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,” ...

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. 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 ...

They can be a splash of yellow on a rock, a delicate green tangle on the ground or a reddish brown patch on a tree. Lichens, mosses and liverworts are around all year, but their modest miniature forms ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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

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 ...