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Mushrooms growing on a farm

UK mushroom growing uses 100,000 m³ of peat a year – can we do better?

30 June 2022

Peat bogs are an important carbon store, so mushroom growers are searching for a way to grow their produce on other substrates
Andean frog (Bryophryne cophites) dead from chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) Cusco region, Peru.

Nearly 100 species of frogs, toads and salamanders wiped out by fungus

28 March 2019

The deadly disease caused by chytrid fungus is now thought to have driven nearly 100 amphibian species to extinction and contributed to the decline of over 400 more

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