Tom Lathan

Why fungi might solve the world’s problems

The cleverest of all organisms, they make medicine, nourish plants, digest pollutants and even influence the Earth’s atmosphere, according to Merlin Sheldrake

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  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future

    Merlin Sheldrake

    Bodley Head, pp. 368, £20

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