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Fieldwork is being carried out in Europe, tropical areas in Costa Rica, Venezuela and Malaysia, and the Valdivian temperate rainforest in Chile. Lichen symbiosis is particularly successful in habitats ...

Why devote a decade to documenting the lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park? After nearly 100 years of study, the consensus by the 21st century was that the lichens of the Smokies were a ...

Antarctica is undergoing dramatic changes as sea ice hits its lowest winter levels on record and plant life rapidly expands ...

Antarctica is turning green as plants take over parts of the icy landscape. The change is happening far faster than expected, ...

Lichens are diverse. They grow on tree trunks ... When I was a postgraduate botany student in the late '70s, colleagues one day brought samples of common sea lettuce, Ulva latuca, to the laboratory, ...

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Data from NASA's Curiosity rover collected on Mars is shedding new light on how the Red Planet became uninhabitable in the ...

Back in the 19th century, migrant miners from Cornwall, in the southwest of England, brought their pastries to the Mexican mining town of Real del Monte.

At the Hands On Children’s Museum in Olympia, every last inch of space is put to good use. Outside, there's another half-acre ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...