SUPREME COURT’S LEAKED DRAFT OPINION. KELLY: TIME NOW FOR THIS WEEK’S ASK KELLY SEGMENT. PATTY GRACE NOTICED SOMETHING WHILE OUT AND ABOUT. MAYBE YOU’VE NOTICED IT TOO. SHE SENT ME THIS PICTURE AND ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Lichens on stone, those "still explosions" as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, which is remarkable when you consider how commonplace they are. It seems these ...

What could possibly be inspiring about that green stuff covering Oregon’s trees? What could possibly be inspiring about that green stuff covering Oregon’s trees? Lichen is a an ecological wonder that ...

As the early morning sunlight lasers over the horizon, autumn tumbles in amid flurries of fluttering leaves, glowing golden, orange-y, and scarlet. Fall has arrived, yet the weather remains quite warm ...

Often mistaken for primitive plants such as moss (if they are even noticed in the first place), lichens are actually not plants at all. They are a group of versatile symbiotic life-forms that play ...

In northern Canada, the forest floor is carpeted with reindeer lichens. They look like a moss made of tiny gray branches, but they're stranger than that: they're composite organisms, a fungus and ...

Scientists thought that reindeer lichens (moss-looking organisms that form a major part of reindeer diets) reproduced mainly asexually by cloning themselves. But it turns out, reindeer lichens are ...