{"id":244742,"date":"2026-10-01T05:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/discovery-of-fungi-living-within-desert-moss-is-challenging-past-thinking-on-how-organisms-thrive-in-arid-environments"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:33:44","slug":"discovery-of-fungi-living-within-desert-moss-is-challenging-past-thinking-on-how-organisms-thrive-in-arid-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/discovery-of-fungi-living-within-desert-moss-is-challenging-past-thinking-on-how-organisms-thrive-in-arid-environments","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of Fungi Living Within Desert Moss is Challenging Past Thinking on How Organisms Thrive in Arid Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-fungi-living-within-desert-moss-is-challenging-past-thinking-on-how-organisms-thrive-in-arid-environments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moss has long been regarded as unusual among land plants for its resilience and apparent independence from fungal partnerships, which are common in other species; however, new research from UC Riverside indicates that this view may not apply in desert environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moss has long been regarded as unusual among land plants for its resilience and apparent independence from fungal partnerships, which are common in other species; however, new research from UC Riverside indicates that this view may not apply in desert environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}