{"id":50084,"date":"2024-05-27T01:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T15:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=50084"},"modified":"2024-05-27T01:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T15:20:43","slug":"how-fungi-could-help-clean-up-our-biggest-toxic-messes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=50084","title":{"rendered":"How fungi could help clean up our biggest toxic messes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Soil_Testing-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Soil Testing\" width=\"773\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Soil_Testing-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Soil_Testing.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Researchers doing mycoremediation field work. Several biologists are tapping into fungi\u2019s decomposing abilities to cleanup toxic sites.<\/p>\n<p>Fungi are nature\u2019s decomposers, using enzymes to break apart organic material. Emerging results suggest they can clean up polluted soils, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/climate-ecology\/how-fungi-could-help-clean-up-our-biggest-toxic-messes\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/climate-ecology\/how-fungi-could-help-clean-up-our-biggest-toxic-messes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers doing mycoremediation field work. Several biologists are tapping into fungi\u2019s decomposing abilities to cleanup toxic sites. Fungi are nature\u2019s decomposers, using enzymes to break apart organic material. Emerging results suggest they can clean up polluted soils, too. https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/climate-ecology\/how-fungi-could-help-clean-up-our-biggest-toxic-messes\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50087,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50084\/revisions\/50087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}