A pair of Italians, a restaurant consultant and a food writer, first organized Cook It Raw as a prelude to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last year. At that gathering they asked ...

Against a field of snow, it can be very difficult to find reindeer moss, as it is typically a pale, almost white lichen. From a distance, humans wouldn’t be able to distinguish it from snow.

Reindeer subsist largely on light-colored reindeer moss, which isn’t actually a moss but rather a type of lichen that grows in crunchy, carpet-like patches across northern latitudes.

Reindeer subsist largely on light-colored reindeer moss, which isn't actually a moss but rather a type of lichen that grows in crunchy, carpet-like patches across northern latitudes.

Minimalist, double-sided pictures that require no watering, pruning, or sunlight. One side is made entirely of reindeer moss that was handpicked (in a sustainable way) from the Scandinavian forest.

Reindeer in a corral at Lappeasuando near Kiruna, Sweden, await to be released onto the winter pastures on Nov. 30. 2019. (AP Photo/Malin Moberg, File) Author: HOLLY RAMER Associated Press ...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is famous for pulling Santa's sleigh, but researchers from the US and UK say its reindeer's vision that really sets them apart.

Researchers traveled to the Cairngorms mountains in the Scottish Highlands, which hosts more than 1,500 species of lichen as well as Britain’s only reindeer herd. They found reindeer moss ...