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Megafire kills Joshua trees, but not fungi
- May 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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When the Dome Fire tore through the Mojave Desert in 2020, it reduced 1 million Eastern Joshua trees to blackened skeletons. Scientists expected the underground ecosystem to be equally devastated. Instead, they found it thriving.
Originally published at Phys.org