‘Real-life Project Hail Mary’: Scientists discover a hidden fungal network beneath Earth stretching 110 quadrillion kilometres |

Beneath forests, grasslands and even the soil in our gardens lies an extraordinary hidden world that most people never see. Scientists have now mapped a vast underground network of microscopic fungi stretching an estimated 110 quadrillion kilometres across Earth’s topsoil, a distance so immense that it could reach the Sun nearly a billion times. The…

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Mount St. Helens Eruption: Mount St. Helens eruption: How Gophers transformed a barren land in 43 years | World News

When Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980, a green and vibrant landscape turned into a desolate ash and grey wasteland. But, within the grey barrenness, scientists conducted a courageous 24-hour study: they put pocket gophers in the blast zone. More than 40 years later, this short intervention has led to phenomenal results, with this rodent…

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