{"id":9932,"date":"2026-06-13T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:01:06","slug":"threads-of-underground-fungal-networks-are-long-enough-to-reach-beyond-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9932","title":{"rendered":"Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 13, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks\u2014webs of ultra-thin threads that, if connected in a single line, would stretch almost a billion times the distance between the Earth and the sun, according to new research published in Science on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>These fungal communities form intimate relationships with the roots of plants, which they provide with nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen in exchange for carbon, 1 billion tons of which the networks sequester underground annually, previous research has found. If the fungal network wasn\u2019t storing it, that carbon would be warming the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>But those networks have never been mapped globally until now. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adu4373\">new study<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spun.earth\/?r=0\">Society for the Protection of Underground Networks<\/a>, or SPUN, an organization founded to map mycorrhizal fungi networks, used a combination of literature review, soil samples from around the globe, machine learning and laboratory testing to estimate the distribution and mass of these systems and <a href=\"https:\/\/spun-625.pages.dev\/story\/a-hidden-infrastructure\">map<\/a> where they are densest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/threads-of-underground-fungal-networks-are-long-enough-to-reach-beyond-the-solar-system\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/threads-of-underground-fungal-networks-are-long-enough-to-reach-beyond-the-solar-system\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/threads-of-underground-fungal-networks-are-long-enough-to-reach-beyond-the-solar-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News &bull; June 13, 2026 Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks\u2014webs of ultra-thin threads that, if connected in a single line, would stretch almost a billion times the distance between the Earth and the sun, according to new research published in Science on<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9932\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}