The world's largest living network was always under our feet, and we just drew the map

An international team published in Science the first global maps of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks — roughly 110 quadrillion kilometres of underground thread, some 300 megatons of carbon, moving about 4 billion tons of CO2-equivalent into soils each year. It reached the Hacker News front page as a popular-science marvel. *Here is the inverse of the climate silence: a hidden depth made suddenly visible, and the collective delighting in it. The same week the gaze refuses the invisible heat ...