Abstract: During the last decades the effects of airborne pollution on human have been recognized.Thus,monitoring and remediation of pollution have been put on the schedule.More and more attention has been paid to the biomonitoring because of the limit of traditional methods.As good material of heavy metals pollution indicator bryophytes is based on their sensitivity and endurance to heavy metals,the content of heavy metals absorbed in tissue can assess the intensity and extent of possible heavy metal pollution directly.The actualities of bryophyte monitoring environmental pollution in recent years are reviewed by introducing some representative cases about environmental monitoring.The prospects of bryophyte as biomonitor and bioremediation material of environmental pollution are evaluated in this paper.