Are fire-loving fungi mother nature’s first responders after wildfires?
The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News [Unofficial]
April 3, 2026
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM After a severe wildfire, the first visible signs of life returning are often flowers or birds. What you cannot see is what arrives even earlier. Within weeks of a blaze, tiny fungal fruiting bodies push through scorched soil and release spores, briefly carpeting otherwise-bare ground in splashes of ocher, […]
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