George Monbiot

Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks.

British Writer

Lichens usually grow in natural, undisturbed environments, especially where the air is clean.

Natural Habitat

Lichens come in various types, including crusty patches, leaf-like, or shrubby clumps.

Different Forms

Lichens can be many different colors, not only the green commonly associated with plants.

Not Just Green

Lichen, as a medical term, refers to a chronic skin condition, different from the plant.

Medical Condition

This skin condition can lead to patches of various shapes, often itchy and discolored.

Appearance Matters

Lichen skin conditions can cause scarring and should be treated to minimize long-term effects.

Potential Scarring

 this person toby spray Bella walks in I don't know what he said hi I'm Toby I work on likens please sit down and so Toby brought me this problem he said look his two lichens that were clearly different but when we look at their genes they were exactly the same

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 This may allow reindeer to recognize important things in the snow like urine and lichen. When it comes to the sharpest vision, birds of prey soar above the competition. To capture the most detail, an animal must have lots of photoreceptors in its eye,

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 but the females keep theirs throughout the winter as mothers they need to be able to protect their excavations for beneath the snow they find a lichen known as reindeer moss which is rich in energy and the main winter diet for them and their calves

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 winter as mothers they need to be able to protect their excavations for beneath the snow they find a lichen known as reindeer moss which is rich in energy and the main winter diet for them and their calves unlike other deer a cannibal muzzle is

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 I mean, right now there's no roof that's quite open air. and you can imagine it would be very enclosed. The sounds, the noises, the smells, the dust in the air. You've got some lichens forming, You've got life even in this abandoned building.

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 It was like visiting a more innocent time on the planet. And then, of course, there's the lichens. These lichens grow only one centimeter every hundred years. I think that really puts human lifespans into a different perspective.

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 could survive but how can life exist without water there is water vapor up in the clouds and Venus and we have some indication that organisms on the earth for example lichens can use water vapour

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 summertime presents its own challenges this fox has shed its silky white winter coat for a more practical pelt it's modeled brown and yellow fur helps it blend in with the lichens and the rocks

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 nourishing bark moss and lichen there's hardly enough to sustain one monkey let alone a family but they share its peaceably