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🌿 MOSS: The Tiny Climate Warrior We've Been Ignoring

WHAT SCIENCE SHOWS ABOUT THIS HUMBLE PLANT:

🌎 CARBON CAPTURE CHAMPION
- Absorbs 4X more CO₂ than trees by volume
- Captures pollutants from air and rainwater
- Continues photosynthesis when trees are dormant
- Creates own ecosystem in urban "dead spaces"

💧 WATER MANAGEMENT GENIUS
- Absorbs up to 20X its weight in water
- Prevents urban flooding during heavy rains
- Slowly releases moisture during dry periods
- Naturally filters contaminants from runoff

❄️ URBAN COOLING SYSTEM
- Creates natural air conditioning effect
- Reduces building surface temperatures by up to 15°F
- Thrives on vertical surfaces where trees can't grow
- Requires zero irrigation or maintenance

🏙️ CITIES ARE CATCHING ON
- Tokyo installing moss walls to combat urban heat
- Seattle encouraging moss growth on buildings
- European cities creating moss-covered bus stops
- Living moss installations purifying indoor air

While we spend billions on high-tech carbon capture,
this ancient plant has been perfecting the process
for 450 million years - for free.

Next time you see moss, don't scrub it away. You're looking at one of nature's most efficient climate solutions.
via: www.biophiliadesign.org
#ClimateAction #UrbanGreening #NaturalSolutions #Mosstodon #Moss

Caption: Moss absorbs 4x more CO. than trees,
thrives without soil, and cools urban
spaces. Yet, people rip it off walls.
Let's rethink moss!
Image: Mossy wall — Caption: Moss absorbs 4x more CO. than trees, thrives without soil, and cools urban spaces. Yet, people rip it off walls. Let's rethink moss! Image: Mossy wall

Lee 🌏

@MrLee@aus.social · 3 days ago

🌿 MOSS: The Tiny Climate Warrior We've Been Ignoring

WHAT SCIENCE SHOWS ABOUT THIS HUMBLE PLANT:

While we spend billions on high-tech carbon capture,
this ancient plant has been perfecting the process
for 450 million years - for free.

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weit_im_westen

@weit_im_westen@nrw.social · 5 days ago

#hiking through #mossy #forests #Mosstodon #MossMonday

The image depicts a fallen tree trunk lying horizontally on the forest floor, surrounded by vibrant green moss and small plants. The tree trunk is covered with patches of bright yellow-green moss, contrasting with its rough, gray bark. The moss is dense and lush, with some small orange buds visible among the greenery. The background features a variety of green plants and trees, indicating a dense forest environment. The lighting suggests a natural, outdoor setting with dappled sunlight filtering through the canopy. The overall scene is rich in texture and color, highlighting the natural beauty of the forest floor.

weit_im_westen

@weit_im_westen@nrw.social · 5 days ago

#hiking through #mossy #forests #Mosstodon #MossMonday

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MxBikil is Spoopy 🎃 and Gay ❄️

@Bikil@queer.party · 2 weeks ago

#SilentSunday #Mosstodon

A river with green trees and bushes along the sides. In the front is a lot diagonally across the river that is covered in moss.

MxBikil is Spoopy 🎃 and Gay ❄️

@Bikil@queer.party · 2 weeks ago

#SilentSunday #Mosstodon

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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange replied · 2 weeks ago

@neil

Perhaps a #Mosstodon tag might improve the range of this cool mossy photo 🙂👍

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Jer 🚵🏼

@jerzone@techhub.social · 2 weeks ago

Appointment over, took the long way back to car for some “forest bathing".
#Mushtodon #Mosstodon #acorns

moss covered old log which has varying sized clover sprouting on top. Nearby are ferns, leaves, and hemlock needles. I didn’t spot a 4-leaf clover, but maybe you will?

two long deserted metal culverts, side-by-side and with the small circles of light inside of each one kind of look like zany eyes.

Closeup of acorn, upside down on the trail, trees blurred in background. Not something you’d want to step on nor maybe have thin walled bike tires compress onto.

tiny little orange mushroom emerging out from under a moss covered log and curving up to catch some light. If you look close there’s a tiny slug nearby in the moss.

Jer 🚵🏼

@jerzone@techhub.social · 2 weeks ago

Appointment over, took the long way back to car for some “forest bathing".
#Mushtodon #Mosstodon #acorns

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Hans

@Hagukh@mas.to · 2 weeks ago

Cladonia lichens and mosses

#LichenSubscribe #lichen #Mosstodon #nature #closeup

A patch of mosses and lichens, to the right of a grey fallen branch.
In the centre is a Mealy Forked Cladonia (Cladonia scabriuscula) with upright, light-coloured, branched, pointed podetia.
The lichen is surrounded by various mosses, a pixie cup lichen (Cladonia sp.) and brown, dry leaves.
To the left are some whitish reindeer lichens (Cladonia arbuscula). — A patch of mosses and lichens, to the right of a grey fallen branch. In the centre is a Mealy Forked Cladonia (Cladonia scabriuscula) with upright, light-coloured, branched, pointed podetia. The lichen is surrounded by various mosses, a pixie cup lichen (Cladonia sp.) and brown, dry leaves. To the left are some whitish reindeer lichens (Cladonia arbuscula).

Hans

@Hagukh@mas.to · 2 weeks ago

Cladonia lichens and mosses

#LichenSubscribe #lichen #Mosstodon #nature #closeup

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lizzzzard

@lizzard@social.tchncs.de · 3 weeks ago

#Mosstodon #SilentSunday

A macro photo of a little moss forest. The foreground is darker green, while in the blurry background the sun is shining on, and in some places glittering on, the light green moss.

lizzzzard

@lizzard@social.tchncs.de · 3 weeks ago

#Mosstodon #SilentSunday

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Hans

@Hagukh@mas.to · 4 weeks ago

Close-up of part of a moss and lichen landscape

#LichenSubscribe #Mosstodon #nature #landscapephotography

Various lichens such as Felt Horn lichen (Cladonia phyllophora) with its brown fruiting bodies (apothecia) that look like small trees, or the single yellow-green podetium of a small Lipstick Powderhorn lichen (probably Cladonia macilenta) with a red fruiting body grow in the light green Haircap moss covered with water droplets from the morning dew.
Almost hidden by the moss, larger bright red apothecia of another Cladonia species can be seen on the left side of the image, along with some long dry moss sporophytes at the right edge of the image. — Various lichens such as Felt Horn lichen (Cladonia phyllophora) with its brown fruiting bodies (apothecia) that look like small trees, or the single yellow-green podetium of a small Lipstick Powderhorn lichen (probably Cladonia macilenta) with a red fruiting body grow in the light green Haircap moss covered with water droplets from the morning dew. Almost hidden by the moss, larger bright red apothecia of another Cladonia species can be seen on the left side of the image, along with some long dry moss sporophytes at the right edge of the image.

Hans

@Hagukh@mas.to · 4 weeks ago

Close-up of part of a moss and lichen landscape

#LichenSubscribe #Mosstodon #nature #landscapephotography

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Laurie S

@loveallexcludenone@toad.social · last month

#cats #Caturday #catsofmastodon #fedicats here is Junior enjoying the #Mosstodon rock wall and #plants including the big #orchid #Flowers behind him with lots of small flowers on its two sprays. #Bloomscrolling and also #fern for your enjoyment my #mastodon #friends ☮️🌈🕉️🌻😻

And for everybody’s enjoyment, a close-up of junior!

Close-up of the lovely scented orchid, light green with a white lip.

Junior is a white and ginger striped cat with a bushy tipped tail standing on a lava rock wall, covered with moss surrounded by plants, including a large orchid with two sprays of small orchid flowers that are light green.

Laurie S

@loveallexcludenone@toad.social · last month

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@von@social.lol · last month

#WaterfallWednesday #Wasserfall #mittwoch #waterfall #wednesday #nature #Mosstodon #hiking #landscape

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@von@social.lol · last month

#WaterfallWednesday #Wasserfall #mittwoch #waterfall #wednesday #nature #Mosstodon #hiking #landscape

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Hans

@Hagukh@mas.to · 2 months ago

For 15 years, an old, no longer used chopping block has been lying untouched behind our garden fence at the edge of the forest.
Today, I took another look at it and snapped a few quick photos. What I found was impressive:
Various mosses and a great variety of different lichens of the genus Cladonia, such as Reindeer, British Soldier, Trumpet, Mealy Pixie Cup, Organ Pipe, Powderhorn, Pyxidata lichen and more... just nature.

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Various Cladonia lichen, such as Reindeer, British Soldier, Trumpet, Mealy Pixie Cup, Organ Pipe, Powderhorn, and Pyxidata lichen with moss on an old chopping block