The authority refused to entertain the application as the classification of provisionally preserved areca nuts was already ...

A restaurant specializing in vegan, fungus-based meals has sprouted in Oakland. Fungi Foods is in its soft-opening phase, with a grand opening planned for April 9, at 434 25th St. in the Northgate ...

Extreme weather events like dust storms, floods, and high winds are spreading dangerous fungal spores. Climate change is causing fungi to become more resilient and expand into new geographic areas.

Fungi are truly weird and impressive—they can live anywhere, be poisonous or medicinal, and, reportedly, transform plastic waste into edible ingredients. And in more fungal news, some groups of fungi ...

ANGWIN, Calif. (AP) — Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow ...

Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow mushroom found, so far, ...

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 ...

Fungi are masters of disguise, morphing from round yeast cells to sword-like filaments, lying low until conditions allow them to invade tissues and trigger deadly infections. While scientists have ...

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus. Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward ...