The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) is warning the public to safely dispose of recently purchased aquarium moss balls after the invasive zebra mussels were discovered inside the ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

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Airborne DNA from decades-old filters shows mosses moving their life cycles earlier as warming disrupts northern seasons.

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 ...

A study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a super resilient desert moss species, Syntrichia Caninervis, that could help sustain possible colonies on Mars. Even after losing more than 98% ...

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 ...

Louisianians are probably familiar with Spanish moss, but they may not be aware of ball moss. Like Spanish moss, ball moss is an epiphyte and belongs to the family Bromeliaceae, said LSU AgCenter ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a super resilient desert moss species in China's western region of Xinjiang that could help sustain possible colonies on Mars, a study by the Chinese ...

If humans are to expand our habitat beyond Earth’s bounds, we will undoubtedly need the support of plant life: to remove ...

Bacteria adhering to three unrelated species of wild moss growing in similar or different habitats were isolated on a nonselective medium and tested for their effect on protonemal growth and ...

Researchers sent moss spores into outer space, and after nine months they returned to Earth ready to grow. Physcomitrium ...