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 ...

Even in this super-colorful springtime, let’s slow down to appreciate a handful of peculiar, often underappreciated oddities ...

I have been asked several times about the lichen that grows on trees and what it is, does it hurt the tree and how to get rid ...

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 ...

March in the Northland is a month of great changes and a plethora of nature happenings. It is another month when the weather seems to get the most attention. In the beginning, it is still winter; cold ...

The author’s admiration of the hardy plant life spreading across the roof turns to alarm when the true nature of the growth is revealed.

When I usually examine lichens, I am in a forest, peering at frilly growths on tree branches with my hand lens. Or on exposed rocks high in the Alps, or old gravestones, or the rocky seashore, in the ...

Lichen growing on a tree branch is visible during a California Lichen Society field trip at the University of California, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 28—March in the Northland is a month of great changes and a plethora of nature happenings. It is another month when the ...