All Toby Kiers articles
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NewsScientists 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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NewsEarth’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.
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NewsSPUN receives $3 million grant to map and protect carbon sequestering fungi
The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), a scientific initiative dedicated to mapping and conserving mycorrhizal networks that underlie all terrestrial ecosystems, has received a $3 million general operating grant from the Schmidt Family Foundation.