Oddly, natural solutions to the pollution and emissions problems are rarely considered. One solution has been ignored or vilified for years.
A study published Monday in Current Biology found that fungi gobble up more than a third of the world’s annual fossil fuel emissions.
As such, fungi “represent a blind spot in carbon modeling, conservation, and restoration,” coauthor Katie Field, a professor of biology at the University of Sheffield, said in a statement.
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