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In the Smoky Mountains, a volunteer effort aims to document every species — before it’s too late
A gentle shower fell as four people in rain gear made their way deep into a spruce-fir forest high in Great Smoky Mountains ...
Most planetary scientists agree that Mars’ extreme conditions would be uninhabitable to life as we know it. New research, however, suggests that we might be underestimating the hardiness of lichens.
Explore how retired volunteers are documenting thousands of species in America's most biodiverse forest, including rare ...
Lichen is everywhere. It grows on sidewalks, rocks, trees, roofs and in frigid tundras, arid deserts and even contaminated environments. You just have to look for it, says lichenologist and Eastern ...
A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA and Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada was conducted as part of the Mars-160 mission ...
All plants and lichens listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act are sensitive to climate change but there are few plans in place to address this threat directly, according to new research ...
Researchers from the University of Helsinki's Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus and the National Museums of Kenya have discovered four lichen species new to science in the rainforests of the ...
The clock is ticking for many low-lying coastal areas. Sea level is rising at historic rates, promising to radically redraw the map. But locating precisely which plots will be inundated and which will ...
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