March in the Northland is a month of great changes and a plethora of nature happenings. It is another month when the weather seems to get the most attention. In the beginning, it is still winter; cold ...
The author’s admiration of the hardy plant life spreading across the roof turns to alarm when the true nature of the growth is revealed.
Lichen is everywhere. It grows on sidewalks, rocks, trees, roofs and undistributed soil and in frigid tundras, arid deserts and even contaminated environments. You just have to look for it, says ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. April Windle from the British Lichen Society has been studying lichen for more than a decade [BBC] "I love lichens. I really do." ...
Gardeners and homeowners often contact our Horticulture Hotline at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Oriskany when they notice a grayish blue-green crusty or mossy looking growth on trees, shrubs, ...
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 ...
The cold of a real winter has finally descended upon us. We have not had many days this season when the temperature has gone into the subzero range, and when it did it was of short duration. Now, in ...
"I love lichens. I really do." Which is fortunate, as April Windle is currently peering down a magnifying lens on a muddy bank in the middle of a slightly damp New Forest. "I've been lucky enough to ...