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The Wood Wide Web #Biohacking
https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/05/08/the-wood-wide-web-biohacking/
A new study shows that trees of different species can exchange large amounts of carbon via the fungal internet that connects their roots, via The Atlantic
In 1999, a team of scientists led by Christian Körner did what thousands of people do every Christmas: they wrapped Norway spruce trees in tubes. Except this was in March, not December. And the trees were 40-metre-tall giants in the middle of a Swiss forest, not 2-metre pipsqueaks in a living room. (The team had to use a crane). And the tubes had no lights or baubles on them. Instead, they had a series of tiny holes, which pumped out carbon dioxide.
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