Young science writer competition winner digs into an underground biological battle against global warming.
Victoria Gill
Trees though do not act in isolation; they are entangled with - and working alongside - a vast community of micro-scale fungi. Insights into the critical, growth-boosting role of fungi have already been applied to agriculture. Seeding the soil with "friendly fungus" is considered a promising technology for future sustainable farming.
Switching from chemical to biological fertilisers does comes at a financial cost. Biological fertilisers are also often crop-specific and they generally do not boost crop yield as much and as quickly as chemical fertilisers do. They are understood to be so much more beneficial for the soil and for the environment though that, in the UK, the government has developed a scheme called the Sustainable Farming Incentive .
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