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The fungus that keeps the books
Underneath a hectare of woodland, an accounting system moves carbon between trees that have never touched. Nobody has found the ledger.
P. Varga8 August 2026
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Nature
Not nature writing as scenery. What the rest of the living world is doing about time, scale, decay and repair — and what it looks like to take that seriously.
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