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A cassava farmer checks his crops in the Juma Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, circa 2011. Cassava serves as both an important commercial crop and a subsistence crop by Indigenous and traditional peoples.

Witch Hunt: Virulent fungal disease attacks South America’s cassava crop

Gloria Dickie 5 Nov 2025
Community people in Jhumlabang gathered in a community meeting in July. Image courtesy of Jhumlabang Village Foundation (JVF).

In Nepal’s hills, a fight brews over the country’s biggest iron deposit

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Oct 2025
Mountain yellow-legged frogs have a wide array of color variations, ranging from yellow and brown to red and gray.

Uphill battle to save California’s endangered mountain yellow-legged frog

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025
Newly described B. kanadii growing on a fir tree in a forest in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India. Image courtesy of Arvind Parihar.

Massive fungus from India is newly described species

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2025
Prochlorococcus marinus, a globally significant marine cyanobacterium. Image by Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT, 2007, via Flickr (Public domain).

New conservation panel to focus on microorganisms crucial for human and planet health

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 2025
Golden oyster mushrooms. Image by Jordan Cook via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Golden oyster mushrooms are crowding out native fungi in North America

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2025
Amanda L. Cordeiro (left), a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Minnesota and Daniela F. Cusack, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University at one of their research sites to investigate how root systems react to climatic changes.

Tropical forest roots show strain as changes aboveground filter below

Petro Kotzé 15 Jul 2025
Fungi are our climate allies | Against All Odds

Of mushrooms and mycelium: How fungi are powering eco-friendly solutions

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2025
Fungi are our climate allies | Against All Odds

Fungi are our climate allies | Against All Odds

Sam Lee 4 Jun 2025
Banner image of a Darwin's frog and newborn at London Zoo, courtesy of Benjamin Tapley/ZSL.

Endangered Chilean frogs thrive in London while waiting out deadly fungus

Kristine Sabillo 15 Apr 2025

Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction

Bobby Bascomb 2 Apr 2025
An acacia plant hosting stinging ants for defense. Image by Ryan Somma via Flickr (CCBY-SA2.0).

The vast venomous world of plants, fungi, bacteria: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Apr 2025

A century later, a rare mushroom with a curious shape emerges in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Mar 2025

‘Truffle dogs’ help sniff out two new truffle species

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Feb 2025
Nets, ropes, buoys and other bits of fishing equipment bursting out of decaying bags.

Startups replace plastics with mushrooms in the seafood industry

Claire Turrell 29 Oct 2024

To save endangered trees, researchers in South America recruit an army of fungi

Sofia Moutinho 12 Sep 2024
Acorns on an oak tree.

Drone cameras help scientists distinguish between drought stress & fungus in oaks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Apr 2024
Chörtens right outside the walled city of Lo Manthang. Image by Jean-Marie Hullot via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 Deed).

Traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of age-old Himalayan practice

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Dec 2023
Mushrooms

Gone before we know them? Kew’s ‘State of the World’s Plants and Fungi’ report warns of extinctions

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2023
Greville's bolete, which has a mycorrhizal relationship with larch trees.

Machine learning helps researchers identify underground fungal networks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 4 Aug 2023
Amanita muscaria is a mushroom that is both hallucinogenic and poisonous. Image posted by creator 942784 to the Creative Commons via Pixabay.

‘A psychedelic renaissance’: How hallucinogens can aid conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Jun 2023

Sri Lanka researchers amp up mushroom studies and find new species

Malaka Rodrigo 27 May 2023
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
Aplastodiscus leucopygius.

Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023

Mycorrhizal fungi, nature’s ‘wood wide web,’ get a $3m conservation boost

Liz Kimbrough 11 Nov 2022
A cordycep dealer.

Local coverage of Nepal’s ‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest lacks eco focus, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Oct 2022
Arabica coffee growing under a shade of trees. Image courtesy of Noel Rojo.

Farmers in Mexico fight coffee disease with resistant varieties and agroforestry

Magdaléna Rojo 15 Jun 2022

Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration

Carly Nairn 15 Sep 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2020 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020
A canopy crane in the forest in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve. Photo courtesy of Lei Chen.

Beneficial and harmful fungi are at the root of forest diversity

Jack J. Lee 28 Nov 2019

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