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 ...
If plants had never learned to grow in multiple directions, our world would look very different. No trees, flowers, or other ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new species of "killer fungus" has been discovered in Britain that destroys an aggressively invasive plant, raising hopes ...
Researchers have established the world's largest collection of moss species for the peat industry and science. Peatlands with their huge diversity of peat moss species store about 30 percent of the ...
Conservationists have rescued a rare moss from a tree after it was blown down in a storm. Aspen bristle-moss has only been ...
An emergency translocation of a rare moss has been carried out after a fallen Aspen tree in the strath put the species’ ...
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified a previously unknown protein that may help explain how plants ...