Amid growing evidence of fungi’s key role in ecosystems and storing carbon, African scientists are championing the need to preserve ‘funga’ as much as flora and fauna ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change. Though invisible on the surface of the desert, ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues at unsuspecting prey, every organism carves out its own strategy to ...

The Underground Atlas, a new model of the worldwide distribution of mycorrhizal, or network-forming, fungi, shows that the fungi in these and other places need protection. Created by researchers at ...

Fungicides are similar to the drugs given to patients. So the fungus becomes resistant to the fungicide and, at the same time ...

CU Boulder researchers demonstrate how knowledge gaps hinder conservation efforts Over the past century, conservationists have become more effective in sounding the alarm about species at risk of ...

There's still so much we don't know about forest fungi. The University of Wisconsin is recruiting citizens to help. CATHY WURZER: Got some time? How about being a citizen scientist and sending tree ...

With lives and food security at risk scientists stress on a cross-disciplinary research in healthcare, agriculture, science ...

Agarikon is one of two endangered species of fungi in the United States. So rare is the species that scientists have placed samples of it in a biobank facility for safekeeping at the San Diego Zoo, in ...

It’s hard to miss the headliners at Kew Gardens. The botanical collection in London is home to towering redwoods and giant Amazonian water lilies capable of holding up a small child. Each spring, its ...

An increasing number of fungi are becoming resistant to medication, posing serious risks for patients with weakened immune ...