Earth's Extremes

25 Natural Phenomena That Science Has Only Recently Been Able to Explain

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Plants communicate via an underground fungal internet to warn neighbors.

Fungi networks connect trees beneath the forest floor.

Trees share nutrients and alarm signals through a vast underground mycelium network. Science only recently mapped how these 'Wood Wide Webs' function between species.

"90% of land plants rely on this symbiotic exchange."

This discovery reveals that forests act as single interconnected organisms rather than individual competitors.

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