Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using ...

A research team from Skoltech, the Institute of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations in Russia and the U.S ...

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of ...

Bacterial and fungal spores float out in the stratosphere, yet they are capable of falling back to Earth where they can ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Most underground fungi remain unknown, and urgent action is needed to study their crucial role in sustaining ecosystems the ...

Mycorrhizal fungi help regulate the Earth's climate and ecosystems by forming underground networks that provide plants with ...

Hidden in the seed coat of a common plant, an elusive fungus has finally been found. It may lead to better treatments for ...

A new study tracks the proliferation of fungal pathogens among various climate change scenarios—and it’s not good news.

“We assume that they were formed in a slightly more humid climate,” Passchier said, suggesting that the organisms might have flourished during a wetter period in Earth’s history ...