From carbon sequestration to metal filtering, fungi do the planet's heavy lifting

About 13 billion tons of CO2 disappear underground each year, pulled down by mycorrhizal fungi — a volume equal to roughly a third of annual fossil fuel emissions — and until recently, most conservation frameworks didn't even acknowledge fungi as a distinct kingdom of life. — Read the rest The post From carbon sequestration to metal filtering, fungi do the planet's heavy lifting appeared first on Boing Boing.