I know many of us want winter to come to an end, but I would like just one more good snowstorm. I love all seasons, but I need a little more of that winter bleakness in the woods, primarily to help me ...

One thing all gardeners face at some point is unintentional plants growing in unintentional places. Moss, for example, often ...

Coral lichen on a tree in Newfoundland. This lichen has been demonstrated to usefully discriminate between old-growth and second-growth forests in Nova Scotia, Canada. Credit: Troy McMullin There aren ...

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Researchers with the Nature Trust of New Brunswick are on the hunt for four different types of lichens and they’ve found one – in an unusual spot. The scaly fringe lichen, known scientifically as ...

The patches of lichen you’ve probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they’re actually some of the world’s strangest living things. While they're sometimes ...

I took a rather harrowing walk out back on Sunday. Snow squalls were threatening and the wind was tossing the tops of the giant spruce, hemlock and pine back and forth. Occasionally branches would ...

Question: Please help! I just noticed that my wild plum tree in my backyard has some sort of fungus growing on it. Is there anything I can do, or is it diseased beyond repair? It was healthy this ...

The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Nov. 14—Obscured by the fog of deep time — an incomprehensible 250 million years ago — two organisms formed a ...