This episode explores new research, which has found that global wind systems are responsible for mosses becoming one of our planet's most widely distributed plants.


Read this episode’s science poem here.

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.

Read ‘Moss’ by Bruce Guernsey here.


Music by Rufus Beckett.


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