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 ...

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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 ...

How fungi ‘superpowers’ from mushroom pellets are restoring forests across the world - ‘Rhizopellets’ are being planted ...

As Emily Monosson points out in her new book, Blight, fungi are everywhere. There are thousands of species of yeasts, mushrooms, molds and mildews. Some estimates put the number of fungal species at ...

What spoils our crops, kills about six times more people than malaria every year and is breathed in by each of us every single day? It’s not a virus or bacteria, but something even more formidable: ...

For a while, scientists thought the trillions of microbes on our bodies lived in landscapes connected to the outside world — our skin, hair, and gut — but research in the last few years has shown that ...

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the magical world of fungi and the power that these incredible organisms have to shape the future of life on Earth. Scientists around the world ...

As the climate warms the planet and temperatures rise, some fungi are figuring out how to exist at higher temperatures than they usually like. Enter zombie concerns. Some real-life fungi are already ...

Sam Jones: Hi, everyone. Sam here, popping in with a little bonus episode for you this week on top of our regular episode. So if you, like me and millions of other people, have seen The Last of Us, ...