News Release 2-May-2023 Why mosses are vital for the health of our soil and Earth Peer-Reviewed Publication University of New South Wales ...

They found that mosses cover an incredible 3.6-million-square-mile (9.4-million-sq-km) area of the Earth, which is close to the size of Canada or China.

THE speedy demand for a second issue of Mr. Russell's book testifies to its value and usefulnes as a guide to the study of mosses and hepatics. The introductory portion is all that can be desired ...

Mosses grow on all kinds of substrates, including bare rock. Some have a preference for granite, sandstone or serpentine. A couple of rarities occur only on copper outcrops in the Sierra foothills.

Desert conditions are harsh, and mosses often spend much of the year in a dormant condition, desiccated and brown, until rain comes. Researchers discovered two species of moss that found a hiding ...

Mosses often seem to take root in potted plants, and what may be hardly seen one day is soon wall-to-wall moss. I associate this growth with lots of watering, constant wetness, high nitrogen and ...

And some mosses, like the ones in the dry parts of Australia, curl when they get dry, but they don’t die – they live in suspended animation forever. We’ve taken mosses out of a packet after 100 years, ...

To get the spores even higher, the peat mosses shoot them out, using their stalks as mini-cannons. Each one has anywhere from 20,000 to 250,000 spores loaded into a round capsule at its tip.

Discover why the planet's coldest, icy continent has begun to turn green – and how climate change is playing a role in the ...