Lichens and mosses may act as living sensors of urban warming, helping researchers understand how rising city temperatures alter biodiversity at the smallest scales.

The 2026 Northeast Natural History Conference took place in April in Burlington, Vermont. On Saturday, one of the first sessions, “Tales of Change Through the Lens of Lichens”, focused entirely on lic...

Did you know that behind the scenes of many natural history museums are millions of specimens representing life on earth, from fossils to insects to plants? Museums worldwide, including the Academy of...

Registration is now open for the 10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL10), which will be held in Trieste, Italy, from July 26 to 31, 2026. The meeting will bring togethe...

An upcoming special issue of MycoKeys will host the proceedings of the contributions presented at the 10th international conference of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL10). The issue ...

A quick video demonstrating how easy it is to make an observation with the iNaturalist mobile app. www.inaturalist.org Spanish subtitles by Joaquín Cochero. Chinese…

This month, I uploaded the images and illustrations from the recent article, to Wikimedia commons. I hope these illustrations will help highlight the diversity and diagnostic characters of Psora speci...

It's symbiotic. ----- Copyright Allie Weill 2017 Words, lyrics, banjolele, vocals by Allie Weill Produced by The Jeff Kessler Experience ------ C D I used to go out walking, climbed on rocks and