How mushroom compost can help stop wildfires in forests
Researchers in Boulder in Colorado in the United States say mushrooms can prevent fires taking hold in forests.
Bacteria from the mushrooms, known as fungi can turn piles of wood - which could help flames spread - into soil, whch can't.
Zach Hedstrom is a mushroom expert in Colorado. He told Newshour's Rob Young ?why the fungi he grows should be deployed in the battle to stop wildfires.
(Photo shows a forest in California. Credit: LiPo Ching/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images)
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