ELSA HELIN(See P. Porada et al., “High potential for weathering and climate effects of non-vascular vegetation in the Late Ordovician,” Nature Communications, 2016.)
Image of the Day: Moss Effect
By weathering rocks, mosses might have indirectly helped cool the climate during the Late Ordovician period, when carbon dioxide concentrations were eight times what they are today.
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