Fungal storms in California are rising as Valley fever cases grow. Dust, wind and climate shifts spread airborne spores ...

Sugarcane plantations in the Visayas have been provided beneficial micro-organisms, foliar fertilizers and high-powered ...

The world around us is incredibly fantastic and beautiful, no matter how seriously you believe in modern science. Anyway, ...

Box turtles face threats from cars, habitat loss and being taken as pets. Learn how to help these vulnerable creatures.

In a typical spawning sequence, the female lays eggs and quickly takes them into her mouth. Males then present the egg spots ...

Scientists study whether Aspergillus calidoustus could survive Mars-like conditions, raising new concerns about microbes in ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

Feel like fungi is popping up everywhere you look lately? You're not imagining it, with ecologist and environmental photographer Alison Pouliot noting a "public groundswell of interest" in all things ...

Forests seem sturdy and solid from the outside, but there might be something happening silently underneath. Some fungi can cause trees to decay internally and leave them weakened without showing any ...

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a “superpower” that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull down the rain, according to a recent study. To understand how a ...

Seventy-five years ago, in the depths of a peat bog in Yorkshire, UK, archaeologists made a startling discovery: the perfectly preserved remains of dozens of 11,000-year-old mushrooms. Carefully cut ...

Fungi play a dual role as indispensable ecological engineers and as major agents of disease in humans, animals, and plants. Recent estimates highlight their substantial impact, with millions of ...