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[ Nature ]
Mushrooms are Saving Honeybee Colonies!
By Sam Burns
Mushrooms are saving the day for us yet again! Did you know that 70% of the fruits and vegetables we eat count on bees for pollination, and yet bee populations are plummeting? But the good news here is that some mushrooms have been found to have an ingenious property that allows them to defend the beehives!
8 minutes
Your World: Made Possible By Giant Fungi
What does a 420 million-year-old giant fungus have to do with life on Earth as we know it today? Much more than you might think! (You might have to thank its early cousins for making our lives possible!)
6 minutes
[ Food ]
Here’s Where Your Mushrooms Come From!
By Sam Burns
You can find fungi pretty much everywhere—including your plate. But how does it get there? The amazing series, How Does it Grow, brings us to one of the largest mushroom growers in the United States to find out how!
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[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
Innovators to the End: Mushroom Burial Suits!
By Dr. Lynda
Ingenious people are always the ones dragging culture forward. It is time to start innovating when it comes to death. How about a mushroom burial suit!
