It may not survive climate change. By Chelsea Harvey | 08/10/2023 06:23 AM EDT The Tibetan Plateau is one of the few places on Earth where the moss — or Takakia, as the genus is known by ...

The world’s oldest moss has seen four mass extinctions — but may not survive climate change. The genus Takakia has the highest number of fast-evolving genes of any moss, researchers report ...

Takakia, a 390 million-year-old moss, has adapted to life in some of Earth’s harshest environments. But it may not evolve quickly enough to survive the climate crisis.

Moss can grow in nearly every nook of the world, ranging from arid deserts to boreal forests. “No other studies have been conducted at a global scale, such as the one we did,” Eldridge says.

Takakia lepidozioides, a type of moss found mainly in the US, Japan and Tibet, has survived at least 165 million years and multiple catastrophic climate events, ...

Moss grows in the ice-free areas of Antarctica, such as those shown in light brown. (Supplied: Australian Antarctic Data Centre) Moss grows only in the ice-free areas of Antarctica, which make up ...

The harvesting of peat moss used by gardeners and the nursery industry to improve drainage and retain water in soil contributes to climate change, according to an Oregon State University Extension ...

Takakia lepidozioides, a type of moss found mainly in the US, Japan and Tibet, has survived at least 165 million years and multiple catastrophic climate events, including the one that killed the ...