# From air to stone: The fig trees fighting climate change

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/from-air-to-stone-the-fig-trees-fighting-climate-change/
- Published: 2025-07-09T09:15:00-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.sciencedaily.com