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Scientists build robot to track plant-fungal trade networks, revealing nature’s underground supply chains
New research uses advanced robotics to track the hyper-efficient supply chains formed between plants and mycorrhizal fungi as they trade carbon and nutrients across the complex, living networks that help regulate the Earth’s atmosphere and ecosystems.
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Climate change is moving tree populations away from the soil fungi that sustain them
In response to climate change, trees, especially those in the far north, may be relocating to soils that don’t have the fungal life to support them, a new study finds.
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Earth’s fungal networks could be essential to reaching net zero
Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, a new study reveals.