Plants and animals. Flora and fauna. While these phrases are familiar, they don't contain another kingdom of organisms crucial to local habitats. These life-forms are neither plants nor animals.

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 ...

Seen in the image below, scientists have discovered an unusual specimen of fungus that made a carpenter ant its home; this discovery is the oldest known ant fungal parasite, which is also a new genus ...

Deep within the world’s forests, nature hides one of its most mesmerising spectacles, mushrooms that glow in the dark. These ...

The golden oyster mushroom, originally from Asia, is spreading in Wisconsin and across the United States, pushing out native ...

Rot development during fruit storage is a problem. Now, metabarcoding may become a tool for detecting fungi that can cause ...

Most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, so the quality of the air we breathe is important. Concerns about health issues, most commonly allergic reactions from inhaling fungal spores, ...

1. The loss of suitable habitats is one of the main causes behind the loss of species and communities. Habitat fragmentation, that is, the division of the remaining habitat into small and isolated ...