The importance of dead wood and fungi in maintaining forest ecosystems will be the focus of the Thursday, Oct. 13, webinar sponsored by Friends of White’s Woods. Jerry Hassinger, retired Pennsylvania ...

University of Minnesota researchers studied the microbial degradation of the USS Cairo, one of the first ironclad and steam-powered gunboats used in the United States Civil War. Studies of microbial ...

Some fungi are wasteful, while others recycle—and this can determine how much carbon is stored in a forest. Researchers at Lund University have now revealed how fungi manage their mycelium, the ...

There are probably more than two or three million kinds of fungi, although fewer than about two hundred thousand are known taxonomically. What strange creatures they are: not plants, although their ...