Global map of Earth’s mycorrhizal fungal networks could help protect them

Mongabay
Jun 15, 2026, 5:58 pm125 ptsTrending
Fungi are living below your feet. Roughly 110 quadrillion kilometers of living fungal threads are woven through the world’s soils. Stretched end-to-end they would cover a distance nearly a billion times that from Earth to the sun. Now, scientists have mapped where those networks are, how dense they are, and…

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