A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and ...

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 ...

A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially-made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi. Teams ...

Golden oyster mushrooms, native to Asia, were brought to North America around the early 2000s. They’re part of an international mushroom culinary craze that has been feeding into one of the world’s ...

Fungi are essential to life on land. They decompose organic matter, cycle nutrients and sustain plant ecosystems. Without ...