moss
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With dated production and too many songs that make a good first impression but fail to stick, “Steel Wheels” has gathered moss over the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Carlini demonstrated how powerful Mythos can be one afternoon recently at Anthropic’s 10-story San Francisco headquarters, where moss walls, plants and artwork are designed to evoke the Pacific Coast Trail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
But our cameraman Gwyndaf Hughes has brought a macro lens, and when I peer through, I see white blobs suspended on the moss tips.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Its victim, the heath-star moss, is all over Britain.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Over the years, trees had quietly grown up around it and moss had spread across its roof.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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Jones said the best way to spot healthy peatland was the plants growing on it, "there'll be grasses, sedges, heathers, critically there will often be bog mosses of the genus sphagnum".
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
"This moss has just exploded. In the 1930s, native mosses would have been growing here instead," Greiff explains.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
"In heathlands like this one, native mosses have gone locally extinct or reduced significantly in their populations," he says.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
"We did a survey of the different kinds of mosses growing near the crime scene, and that species of moss was not growing there," says von Konrat.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026
I tried some of the mosses that they liked, but decided moss was for the deer.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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