Bob Novella

This is important stuff.

And this happens in the human body all the time where we find something, some type of system that we didn't know was there previously, and it opens up a lot of potential areas.

to do good, but of course it comes with thousands of questions that have to be answered as well.

And that's basically where we're at with this.

I mean, some of it, some of the carbon obviously can reenter the atmosphere, can get back out.

But without this network being a part of the carbon sequestration process,

Without it, what I found was that there would be significantly less carbon being managed that way and being put into the ground.

Ours is always called megatons.

No, it's gigatons.

It's 300 gigatons.

But that is what the network currently is holding.

That's what it's holding.

That's the whole thing.

That's what it's holding.

And the cool thing to think though, is like this, you know, it seems surreal that this is like a system that can, can have massive connections over huge areas of land.

Right.

Cause it's, you know, think about like the spider webs growing out into the soil.

And like, if the plants are near each other, they're going to connect and,

And the researchers estimated, this is like one of those numbers that means nothing to the average person.

110 quadrillion kilometers of living fungal hyphae are in the global topsoils.