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Plantlife has launched a rescue mission to save the lichens, which are found in the Lake District’s unique temperate rainforest and rely on ash trees for survival. The species is under threat due to ...

Have you ever paused beneath a towering oak or maple and wondered if that rough, gnarled bark is hiding secrets? What if I told you ... Read more The post What Tree Bark Can Tell You About Local ...

Concrete cracks are no small matter. Over time, these fractures can grow, letting in water, gas, and pollution. This leads to corrosion, weakens the structure, and in the worst cases, causes collapse.

Lichen grow on many kinds of surfaces including trees, soil and rocks. The kinds that land on trees have found a stable surface that has sufficient sunlight, moisture, and minerals to sustain them.

Dawn Brennan inspects the bark of a tree covered in several different lichens during a Lichen in the Winter World walk held by the Glacier Institute around Apgar in Glacier National Park on ...

Although bark, lichen and moss were all sloughed off, Sillett noted that the climbers were “highly skilled” and employed “cambium-saving devices,” which prevent the crucial, growing part ...

The greenshields are a foliose type of lichen, a form that is leaf-like with flat sheets of tissue that can be peeled from the substrate, in the case of common greenshield, from the bark of a tree.

This image shows a common greenshield lichen, which grows on the bark of trees and occasionally on rocks. But instead of driving, take a walk.

The lichen species, however, have been there for far longer. And although they're not new to the planet, they are new to science, which is why the word "new" is used to describe the two species.