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Climate change leads to decline in lichen biocrusts

As summer temperatures continue to rise, important biocrust-forming organisms in the American Southwest may be lost.
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Climate change is killing off soil organisms critical for some of Earth’s ecosystems

Lichens can’t take the heat, with disastrous implications for arid places.

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Lichens could need more than a million years to adapt to climate change

The most impressive aspect of lichens is their interspecies teamwork - a relationship that climate change is threatening to disrupt, throwing their very survival into question.

The Lord God bird and dozens of other species declared extinct in 2021

The Lord God bird and dozens of other species declared extinct in 2021

This year scientists identified birds, lizards, orchids and other species that have been lost. How many more will follow?
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