How a Broader Understanding of the, Fungi Kingdom, Is Inspiring Innovation. 'The Guardian' recently highlighted the amazing and little-understood fungi kingdom. Fungi are spore-producing organisms ...

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.

Now that you've spent some time perfecting your sourdough starter, or had spare minutes to contemplate the nature of your locally brewed beer, a film screening at the International Wildlife Film ...

From molds and yeasts to the mushrooms we fear and love, fungi are connected to life and death on our planet — but they're often misunderstood. We only know about 10% of the estimated 3.8 million ...

Movie"Some fungi will save us, others will threaten us and we are just beginning to understand which is which." You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and ...

Take a walk through the woods after it rains, and you can catch a glimpse of the incredible diversity of fungi. You might spot the real-life version of the red-and ...

When you hear the word fungi, chances are mushrooms come to mind: button mushrooms, maybe portobellos, or chanterelles. But so much of the fungi kingdom is invisible — underground — and many say ...

ATKINSON — The Atkinson Conservation Commission will sponsor a two-part program about the fungus kingdom as part of their 50th anniversary celebration. The program will be held beginning at 10 a.m.

Maybe it’s all coincidence. Maybe it’s the mild and damp air at this time of year. Maybe it’s just part of the newfound interest in the subject of mycology. But whatever the reason, recently there ...

A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers from, among others, NIOZ published their results in ...