Climate change is killing off soil organisms critical for some of Earth's ecosystems - Science

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

Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the skin covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This biocrust, made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, r… [+4657 chars]

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