Tiny Microbes Hiding in Soil May Help Pull Rain From The Sky, Study Reveals

Summary: Did you know that tiny living things in the dirt can control the weather? Bacteria and fungi have a superpower that helps them make it rain! High up in the clouds, water needs a tiny particle, or "seed," to grab onto so it can freeze and fall as rain or snow. Fungi in the soil sweat out special proteins that get blown into the sky by the wind. These proteins are perfect cloud seeds. They make the water freeze and fall down as rain, which waters the forest and helps more fungi grow.

Millions of years ago, fungi actually copied and pasted this superpower from bacteria! This is important because if we cut down forests, we might stop the rain. In the future, we could use these natural proteins to make rain instead of using harsh chemicals.

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