When anything – a species, family or other group of animals or plants – goes extinct, it means there are no living members ...

After two long years, the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is almost here. In the new season, five ...

The IUCN warns that over 400 fungi species face extinction due to deforestation, pollution, and climate change.

Fall armyworms have spread throughout the world, destroying crops and evolving insecticide resistance. New research in ...

While many terrestrial fungi have previously been found to degrade various types of plastic, the team of researchers from the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...

But when Blanchette compared the DNA of the fungi discovered at the explorer huts with a database of known species, he found three types of fungi that were clearly distinct from any temperate ...

Urbanization reshapes soil microbes in surprising ways—bacteria adapt and become alike, while fungi resist change.

At least 411 types of fungi face extinction, according to the IUCN. “Fungi are the unsung heroes of life on Earth, forming the foundation of healthy ecosystems. But they have been overlooked,” IUCN ...