A Forest Isn’t a Collection of Trees. It’s One Living Creature — And We’re Dismembering It.
The first complete map of Earth’s global mycorrhizal network reveals that forests aren’t collections of individual trees — they’re a single interconnected superorganism communicating through fungal threads. This underground network, weighing 13 gigatons, is one of our largest carbon sinks and the communication infrastructure for nearly all land plants. We’re destroying it with every clear-cut and chemical-soaked farm, and almost no climate policy even mentions it.