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Global Map Reveals Vast Underground Fungal Network That Stores Carbon

A 1 km²-resolution, open dataset quantifies about 110 quadrillion kilometres of arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae, roughly 300 megatons of carbon, and an estimated annual transfer of ~4 billion tonnes CO2e into soils to guide conservation and land-use choices.

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Scientists Publish First High-Resolution Global Map of Underground Fungal Networks

FloatLab Arrives at Bartram’s Garden and Begins Installation on the Schuylkill

Hydrophone Recordings Capture Low Rumbles From Pando, the Vast Aspen Clone

Frozen Squirrel Poop Yields 700,000-Year Archive of Ice‑Age DNA

NSW to Begin Helicopter Culls of Brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park

Rare Lyme Bacterium Borrelia mayonii Found in New York, Linked to First Local Human Case

Bear That Shut Schools in Utsunomiya Captured After Four-Day Hunt

First Photographs Confirm Surviving Dwarf Fox on Cozumel

Researchers Grow Cold‑Adapted Yeasts From Ötzi and Turn Them Into Sourdough

Researchers Revive Cold‑Adapted Yeast From Ötzi and Bake Sourdough

Researchers Confirm Metre‑Long Fossil as World's Largest Scorpion

AI Identifies Smuggled Shark Fins, Seahorses and Sea Cucumbers in Airport CT Scans

Rescued Sloths Reach Quarantine Milestone at Central Florida Zoo

Ötzi’s Microbiome Is Active After 5,300 Years, Study Shows

Pacific Grove Closes Lovers Point Beach After Dead Whale Found Offshore

Metre-Long Scorpion Praearcturus Gigas Confirmed From Devonian Fossils

Officers Tranquilize and Catch Neighborhood Bear in Tarp

Hazardous Algae Advisory Issued for Two Lake Nokomis Beaches

Researchers Identify Longhorn Beetle Eating Blueberry Roots in North Carolina