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Underground fungi absorb up to a third of our fossil fuel emissions

Brian Owens · June 5, 2023 ·

Researchers estimate that plants transfer more than 13 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide each year to mycorrhizal fungi, which grow around their roots. The relationships between plants and the fungi that colonise their roots are responsible for locking away a huge amount of carbon underground – maybe equivalent to more than one-third of global emissions from […]

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