World’s fungi at risk from agriculture, deforestation and urban sprawl – experts - The latest update to IUCN red list has ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

The ‘giant knight’ is among 1,300 red list species in the fungal kingdom. View on euronews ...

All of these rusts release the bright rusty-orange spores once spring weather becomes mild and damp, often around late March ...

Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web — transporting nutrients and sending danger signals. Otzi, the 45,000-year ...

Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on ...

The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, ...

"While fungi mainly live hidden underground and inside wood, their loss impacts the life above ground that depends on them," said Professor Anders Dahlberg, who coordinated this latest assessment.

The project will involve members of the research team collecting fungi from a forested area near Fox Creek and studying them ...