The more carbon these fungi are able to draw in, the more carbon dioxide gets captured by plants. It’s sort of like a cookie jar — the bigger it is, the more cookies it can store. Levels of ...

Fungi can enhance the volume of nutrients that ... where they're processing all of this carbon, where the carbon draw-down hot spots [are], and what the diversity of these communities look like ...

The mushroom Laccaria amethystina, which grows near beech trees, can be hard to see from above, given its drab cap. But by lying on the ground and looking up at the gills on the cap’s underside ...