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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers in the U. S. have used synthetic lichen to develop a groundbreaking self-healing concrete system that autonomously ...

My tree has lost all its leaves and the bark now has some fungi growing on it? Is lichen killing my tree? Lichen (pronounced lie-ken) gets a bad rap based on its appearance alone. It has been on our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...