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 ...

Mosses are survivors. They can dry into what looks like green dust, only to spring back to life minutes after rain. They can grow on rocks, in deserts, and there's talk of using them to terraform Mars ...

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

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 ...

More than 85% of land plants partner with fungi to pull nutrients from the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A new species of "killer fungus" has been discovered in Britain that destroys an aggressively invasive plant, raising hopes ...

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 ...