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How lichens’ colors offer protection from UV radiation

“As I stroll through the cemetery near my home on a snowy day,” Rachel Sargent Mirus in Duxbury, Vermont, relates at EagleTimes.com, “splashes of golden orange, bright as daylilies in July, pop from the gray stones. These patches are elegant sunburst lichens, which provide a vibrant example of just how colorful lichens can be. Lichens…

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