Your feet are microbial hotspots. The area between your toes is packed with sweat glands, and when we wrap our feet in socks ...

Mycorrhizal fungi help plants thrive, and sequester an enormous amount of carbon. But a new atlas shows that they need urgent ...

Mycorrhizal fungi play an essential role in climate regulation and ecosystem health, and researchers have used A.I. to ...

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

On the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, Petrolli and his colleagues sampled roots from 10 species of rainforest orchids growing on six individual trees, three each from two different tree species ...

Fungi were fairly resilient, functioning similarly in both the old growth and replanted forests, but a bit slower in the youngest forest. Termites were not so resilient.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean is an uninhabited atoll that houses underground mycorrhizal networks that may have evolved a unique ability to cycle nutrients between seabirds, rainforest trees ...