If you choose to make a terrarium with this moss, Lotte advises misting once a week to keep it at a happy moisture level.

The lichen Clavascidium lacinulatum (Image credit: Bob O'Kennon via iNaturalist) Diving deeper, the team cut through the lichen, finding that the top layer was darker, almost like a suntan in humans.

This isn’t the first automated terrarium we’ve seen, though it is the most aesthetically refined. They aren’t just for plants, either; we’ve seen a system to keep geckos comfortable.

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest conditions on Earth in the form of lichen.

An old fingerpost from Exmoor National Park has taken pride of place in the Natural History Museum’s latest exhibition after being found covered in twelve rare species of lichen. The weather ...

Terrariums have come in and out of vogue, seeing a spurt in popularity from the 1970s to mid-’80s — at which point technology started to take people’s attention away from indoor gardening.

An old fingerpost from Exmoor National Park has taken pride of place in the Natural History Museum’s latest exhibition after being found covered in twelve rare species of lichen. The weather-beaten ...

They investigated the lichen’s protective layer by cutting a cross-section of it and found that the top layer was darker, like a human’s suntan. Lichen is composed of algae or cyanobacteria living ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert can survive, and replicate, under levels of extreme solar radiation found on Earth-like planets in other solar systems. The question of whether Earth is alone in ...

Dave Lamacraft, lichen and bryophyte specialist at Plantlife, said: "These lichens are part of a globally rare community found in the UK’s temperate rainforests. "This is a rescue mission.