From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

For as long as plants have lived on land, fungi have sustained them. Beneath every giant sequoia, every wheat stalk, every black-eyed Susan, hidden webs of filigreed mycelia permeate the plants’ roots ...

GENEVA, March 27 (Reuters) - Nearly a third of species of fungi assessed by an international conservation group are at risk of extinction from threats like deforestation and agricultural expansion ...

The researchers measured diversity of seeds and seedlings from a rainforest in Belize, then tested whether excluding pathogenic fungi and insect herbivores from the same region—by spraying insecticide ...

More than 1,000 of the world’s fungi species have been assessed for their extinction risk, revealing many of the “unsung heroes” of life on Earth are under threat. The finding comes in the ...

At least 411 fungi face extinction among the 1,300 varieties whose conservation status is well understood, according to the latest update of the IUCN's authoritative "Red List of Threatened Species".

Our planet is filled with a stunning diversity of plants and fungi. These images invite you to gaze up ... broad-leaved trees and climbers – like a ‘full-blown rainforest in a bowl’. Chiribiquete ...