A nimble parent may be able to change a nappy in moments, but the end-product can languish in a landfill for centuries. Now ...

Mushroom pellets use fungi ‘superpowers’ to restore forests around world - Rhizocore Technologies aims to curate Earth’s ...

A company is pioneering forest regeneration using the "superpowers" of fungi, developing specially-made mushroom pellets.

Fungi, thriving over a billion years ago in soil, air, and oceans, may have been Earth’s first ecosystem engineers, predating ...

These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close ...

A deadly, drug-resistant fungus is extending its tendrils around the world. Research out this month finds that the public ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck ...

Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be ...

The HBO series “The Last of Us,” inspired by the video game of the same name, has captured many people’s imaginations, by proposing the possibility of an extinction-level threat from a seemingly ...

This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...

The Chernobyl tragedy was one of the most dreadful tragedies of all time. It happened when a routine test at the Chernobyl ...

New study shows fungal mycelium protein grown on plant remnants can be used for fortification of plant-based diets, improving nutrition and taste.