It's amazing:: Underground fungi absorb up to a third of our fossil fuel emissions.
Earth has all those massive carbon storage places like oceans, underground fungi or boglands. All we have to do do is to reduce our emissions so that these systems can continue to do their work.
TIL about orchid bees.. the males gather complex compounds to make their own perfumes by visiting different flowers to collect "fragrances" and mixing them up in specially adapted pouches. In the process they pollinate the orchids. #NatureIsAmazing.
Unfortunately, said book is also to some extent a litany of despair, cataloguing the losses of insect #biodiversity.
I love the intermissions between chapters about different insects though..