Scientists believe that around 2 million undiscovered fungi species are lurking in the shadows of our planet. This remarkable discovery, however, is overshadowed by a stern warning: an alarming 75% of ...

Scientists estimate Earth is home to as many as 6.28 million types of fungi. Yet only about 150,000 species have been described, although thousands more have already been discovered. Why the gap?

Clitocybe are fungi that form a mycorrhiza: a symbiosis with a tree in which the fungal filaments are in contact with the fine root system of the plant. When trees and soil fungi form close ...

There's still so much we don't know about forest fungi. The University of Wisconsin is recruiting citizens to help. CATHY WURZER: Got some time? How about being a citizen scientist and sending tree ...

Meg Duff: For Science, Quickly, I’m Meg Duff. As the world heats up, many of the consequences of burning fossil fuels are now painfully obvious. But there’s also this less intuitive consequence: under ...