Under your feet is a whole hidden world. While you might see a few mushrooms—the fruiting bodies of fungi—on a walk through the woods, what you can’t see is the vast underground network connecting the plant community. These networks are a vital part of the health of any ecosystem as they facilitate the exchange of nutrients (like phosphorus and nitrogen) and carbon to and from plants. It’s a complex arrangement that we don’t fully understand and that even involves the plants and fungi bargaining with each other. And it’s bigger than we imagined.

by Ken Ham on June 22, 2026

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