(Jimena Peck for The Washington Post) Climate Solutions Can mushrooms prevent megafires? “That experiment showed us that the native fungi were helping to accelerate the decomposition really substantially,” he said. Hundreds of thousands of slash piles already lay in wait here until conditions are right. When slash piles are set alight, they burn longer and hotter than most wildfires over a concentrated area. Instead of adding synthetic fertilizers or importing compost, Breiter is using Hedstrom’s mycelium to turn forest slash into organic soil that he can work into his degraded land.

Source: Washington Post July 10, 2023 23:09 UTC