$XRP The First Map of the Global Underground Fungal Network

Total length is nearly a billion times the distance between the Earth and the Sun

A new research project led by the Underground Network Protection Association (SPUN) has created the first map of the global mycorrhizal fungal network.
These underground mycelia total 110 quintillion kilometers in length, with a total mass about five times the weight of all humans.
If connected by a single line, it would extend nearly a billion times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
They form symbioses with about 80% of the world's plants and can sequester approximately 1 billion tons of carbon underground each year.
The map reveals that fungal density in farmland is only half that of wild ecosystems, and wild grasslands, which contain about 40% of the world's fungal biomass, are converting to farmland at four times the rate of forests.