Switzerland officials said historical records indicate the remains of a Roman wall were excavated in the 1860s, but they had ...

One of those strategies is to create a concrete that “self-heals,” and in a new study, scientists used synthetic lichen to ...

A massive, cliff-top boulder in Tonga reveals a 7,000-year-old mega tsunami, offering new insights for coastal hazard ...

A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers ...

My first memorable foray above treeline was a visit to Colorado in the mid-1990s. My uncle, a true wildman, picked pre-teen ...

By Giriraj Agrwal Have you ever glanced at a rock covered in lichen and wondered, “What does this strange organism do for me?

Whenever this column near as mentions Jindabyne, at least one reader rushes to their keyboard to send a message about the ...

These lush ecosystems once covered a fifth of the country, but today it’s barely one per cent. An ambitious project could ...

The surfaces of the rocks facing north and west were covered with green moss and lichen. The trail reached a long stone wall that marked private property before turning sharply southwest down a long, ...

Under their magnifying glasses, participants observed shield lichen stretching across ridged tree bark and another species dotting concrete bricks encircling a rock garden that glowed ... tying fabric ...

Do they know that crust is alive? A lichen called Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans, scattered rock-posy lichen, whose ancestors have been here since the last great glacier melted and inched its way north ...

What could survive in a land covered by frozen soil and ... A sprinkling of lichens grow on any remaining exposed rocks. Mosses get their nutrients from the rocks themselves and, like other ...