Climate change threatens oldest moss.

News PLANTS The world's oldest type of moss has seen four mass extinctions - but may not survive climate change. But no matter how fast its genes can change, rapidly rising temperatures in the region were associated with a decrease in the moss's range - a faster decrease than any of the mosses around it. In the meantime, He, Reski and their colleagues are cultivating Takakia populations and transplanting them to other regions in Tibet in the hopes of giving an old moss a new lease on life. [Extracted from the article]

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