Today is Charles Darwin’s Birthday. Hopfully there’s an event near you. Unfortunately the nearest one to me is ~50 miles way and our car shouldn’t be driven that far. Sigh.

From the Christian Science Monitor, a study looking at soil respiration, finds that with increased temperatures, mushrooms, roots and other soil organisms will not released as much of CO2 as previously thought. The only thing wrong (and I’m nit-picking) is that the author said that mushrooms are the “tiniest terrestrial inhabitants.” Mushrooms can be some of the biggest organisms on the planet. Read the rest of this entry »