A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our ...

Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered a completely new fungal species, which they named after the king of Sweden.

VUB researcher Maarten Ottaway investigated how trees and their invisible underground allies—the fungi—respond to soil ...

Scientists created the first-ever map of this vast underground fungal network and found it could stretch to the sun and back more than a billion times.

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 ...

An inside look at the extensive, weird and wonderful fungi collection at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the ongoing projects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fungi may have been Earth’s first ecosystem engineers, thriving more than a billion years ago. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Fungi live ...

South Sumatra farmers reduced chemical inputs, observing unexpected soil improvements. Beneficial underground fungi became ...

Findings more than a decade in the making reveal a rich diversity of beneficial fungi living in boreal forest trees, with implications for the health of forests. Spruce, pine, fir and other trees ...

Ian Sample hears from professor of evolutionary biology Dr Toby Kiers about how fungi could be the key to our planet’s survival ...

Every few years, Americans seem to collectively “discover” mushrooms — again. In the ’90s mycologist Paul Stamets began alerting us to mycoremediation, the power of fungi to clean up oil spills and ...

The monsoon across Maharashtra has once again transformed the forests of Matheran into a glowing natural spectacle, with ...