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Hidden Fungal Networks Could Stretch From The Earth To The Sun A Billion Times Over

by Keith Cowing

Mycorrhizal fungi form underground networks that sustain plant life and help regulate Earth’s climate by drawing carbon into soils.

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Away Team Mission On Earth: Mapping Fungal Networks On Earth’s Most Remote Island

by Keith Cowing

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean is an uninhabited atoll that houses underground mycorrhizal networks that may have evolved a unique ability to cycle nutrients between seabirds, rainforest trees, […]

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