Fabulous Fungi

An Ode to Fungi

Watching an ABC Australia Landline program about soil carbon sequestration. Seems that fungi are crucial. They may be only 10% of the biomass in any particular soil, but account for 75% of the carbon dioxide sucked out of the atmosphere. Yay fungi.

I first heard of carbon sequestration decades ago. But it seems to have been disappointing and nowhere near fulfilling early hopes. 

Now maybe it’s within the dirt at our feet. And Aussies are at the forefront of research. 

Go farmers’ fabulous fungi!

ADDED: Now it’s Penny Wong, Shadow Environmental person, and she is startlingly like ex PM Kevin Rudd in speech a amd manner. Like, she’s totally the female version of Rudd! Scary…