“Lichens are actually a composite organism of a fungus and an alga that have come together to make a living,” Watts explained ...

These lichen are a ‘result’ rather than the ‘cause.’ The lichen need sunlight and do better on the trees which are not healthy, so they are more apparent on the ‘sick’ trees.

Lichens could be another way to see, at smaller site-specific scales, where the sea is coming next and, just as important, where it is not. About the Author. Ian Rose.

Lichens are nearly everywhere — odd growths that appear as crusty patches and splotches on tree trunks, limbs, rocks, bare soil, stone walls, tombstones, wooden fences. Regardless, lichens often ...

T he presence of lichen or moss on backyard trees can understandably be concerning at first. Lichen is a combination of algae and fungus that lives on any number of solid, undisturbed surfaces ...

Lichens seen with a magnifying tool at Bradbury Mountain State Park. “There's a lot of stuff that not just eats lichen, but lives in it, and most of those are microscopic, so they're the very ...

An unassuming lichen harbors a hidden superpower: It’s remarkably resistant to ultraviolet radiation. New experiments on the hardy organism call into question the long-held belief that alien ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist on distant planets orbiting volatile stars. The secret? A microscopic ...

Published in Astrobiology, the new research demonstrated that lichen found in the Mojave Desert survived for three months under levels of solar radiation previously considered lethal.. The common ...