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 floor. Kyoto. About 2000. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) . Getty Images. Ask most gardeners what they think of moss and the chances are you will get a string of expletives in return.

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 ...

Antarctica is home to ice, penguins and – thanks to climate change – rapidly increasing levels of moss, scientists say. Moss banks, found across parts of the western Antarctic Peninsula, have ...

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Frozen moss that had been buried in the Antarctic permafrost for more than 1,500 years and showed no sign of life has started to grow again in a laboratory, scientists said.