Sublime

Guarding Against Pandemics, the organization that Sam paid for and which Gabe ran.

But the humans have her in their grip, and she’ll never get free again.

“It’s a great idea, trees. So great that evolution keeps inventing it, again and again.”

Unsustainable agricultural practices reduce the ability of plants to form relationships with the beneficial fungi on which they depend. The widespread use of antifungal chemicals has led to an unprecedented rise in new fungal superbugs that threaten both human and plant health. As humans disperse disease-causing fungi, we create new opportunities

Each of the world’s seven hundred and fifty species of Ficus has its own unique wasp tailored to fertilize it.

I kept coming across a similar pattern: events, well-documented in the historic record, that showed how rising and falling precipitation levels contributed to the increase, decrease, and sometimes the complete removal of populations — and ultimately species — from the planet. This was some of the earliest work of its kind.

dying weeks later when the toxin completed its slow crawl through their system. Five years pass and five million people