How Mushrooms Make It Rain
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If you’ve ever come across a mushroom like this one, it may not surprise you that mushrooms are the reproductive organs of fungi. In a single day, one mushroom can catapult billions of tiny spores into the air. And not only do these spores help seed baby fungi, they also help seed clouds. That's because, in order to form clouds, moisture in the air needs microscopic particles to glom onto like airborne dust, sea salt, or pollution. But in places with lots of life, rain-making particles are often biological in origin, like bacteria, pollen, plant fragments, and spores from mushrooms. In fact, Earth has so many mushrooms intent on reproducing that there are a billion spores above every square meter of its surface. Many of these spores drift high up into th...
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If you’ve ever come across a mushroom like this one, it may not surprise you that mushrooms are the reproductive organs of fungi. In a single day, one mushroom can catapult billions of tiny spores into the air. And not only do these spores help seed baby fungi, they also help seed clouds. That's because, in order to form clouds, moisture in the air needs microscopic particles to glom onto like airborne dust, sea salt, or pollution. But in places with lots of life, rain-making particles are often biological in origin, like bacteria, pollen, plant fragments, and spores from mushrooms. In fact, Earth has so many mushrooms intent on reproducing that there are a billion spores above every square meter of its surface. Many of these spores drift high up into th...
