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Under solar panels, desert restoration gets a leg up

Delicate biocrusts are used to restore drylands; instead of cultivating them in high-tech greenhouses, researchers are growing them under solar farms.
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Climate change leads to decline in lichen biocrusts

As summer temperatures continue to rise, important biocrust-forming organisms in the American Southwest may be lost.
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