Impacts 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.
Newsletter 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.
Impacts 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.
Impacts 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?
Elon Musk has criticized environmental regulations. His companies have been accused of sidestepping them.
