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    How fire-loving fungi learned to eat charcoal

    2026-02-03T12:06:00Z

    Wildfire causes most living things to flee or die, but some fungi thrive afterward, even feasting on charred remains. A new study is among the first to investigate how fungi that are barely detectable in the soil before a fire are able to proliferate wildly once an area has burned.