Fungi may offer ‘jaw-dropping’ solution to climate change

(The Hill) - As planet-warming carbon emissions rise, a major solution to climate change is growing beneath our feet.A study published in Current Biology on Monday found that fungi gobble up more than a third of the world’s annual fossil fuel emissions.As such, fungi “represent a blind spot in carbon modeling, conservation, and restoration,” coauthor Kate Field, a professor of biology at the University of Sheffield, said in a statement.“The numbers we&rsquo