Long-term climate warming is causing a bleaching effect in a key Arctic lichen species, according to new research led by researchers in the School of GeoSciences and British Antarctic Survey. The ...

A study has found that warming global temperatures are causing irreversible bleaching in certain Arctic lichen species, ...

Lichens cover the Nushagak Peninsula, which juts into Bristol Bay southwest of Dillingham. They range from mottled green and gray, to yellow and brown, spreading in moss-like patches across the tundra ...

ONE of the world’s great landscapes could soon disappear. The cold, barren Arctic tundra, home to not much more than a sweeping velvety carpet of moss and lichen, could become dominated by bush and ...

Caribou in northern Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory will lose winter habitat if the region’s long-term pattern of increased wildfires continues, according to a study newly published in the journal ...