Until recently, areas contaminated by industrial operations were either left alone or bulldozed with the contaminated material hauled off to a landfill. But the former was wasteful and the latter was expensive and dangerous, so a California ecologist found an inexpensive way to turn those areas into flowering meadows – by planting mushrooms
Mushrooms Help Turn Toxic Brownfields into Blooming Meadows
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