From air to stone: The fig trees fighting climate change

Image caption: Mountain fig growing near the Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden at the University of Pretoria, South Africa – January 20, 2013. Image credit: JMK via Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 3.0. News Release. ScienceDaily – July 6, 2025. Source: European Association of Geochemistry.

Summary: Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away carbon, sweeten surrounding soils, and still yield fruit—hinting at a delicious new weapon in the climate-change arsenal. […]

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