Nature reports

Most sidewalks are paved with square grey concrete slabs. If you look closely at older paving stones, you will often spot pale grey circular patches, about the size of the base of a soft drink can. These are lichens, living..

In city centers, lichens are becoming heavier. Thanks to the urban heat island effect, they adapt to higher temperatures by growing thicker than their counterparts outside the city. This remarkable phenomenon shows how even the..

Tens of thousands of animals around the world are monitored using GPS trackers to protect wildlife and study animal behaviour. The collected data are also useful for biodiversity research, but are seldom available on platforms..