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Fungi

In Our Time: Science

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What Are the Benefits of Being So Big?

A teaspoon of soil typically contains something like ten to a hundred metrs of hype. Fungus is so important for life on earth that youave ien regulating our climate, in producing food, fuel and fibre. We can't see this, obviously, becaue they're below ground, doing whatever it is they're doing - decomposing dead stuff.

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