By Shreya Dasgupta In Antarctica’s extreme cold, plants blanket small ice-free areas in bursts of green. These include two ...

The moss species is named Bryum bharatiensis after the Hindu goddess of learning. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys ...

A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Duke University and other institutions studying Sphagnum moss have identified two new species in North America, and they are learning how evolution may ...

Meet Takakia lepidozioides, an inconspicuous yet remarkable moss species that has defied the odds through multiple catastrophic climate events, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. This ...

Moss is usually thought of as one of nature's simplest plants. It carpets rocks, clings to tree trunks and quietly survives ...

The most unexpected finding was the presence of mycorrhizal fungi, which are known to depend on plant partners. These fungi ...

Extinct moss is being reintroduced across Yorkshire's moors in the fight against climate change. Sphagnum moss can hold 20 times its weight in water and helps create peat bogs, where dead vegetation ...