Some forest fungi tear down and reuse their own threadlike networks, potentially reshaping how forests store carbon over time.

For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you've never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee supply ...

Fungi have become Hollywood’s go-to bad guys. But as yet another story focuses on Cordyceps, Nick Crumpton says we are missing a chance to broaden our fictional horizons ...

Most fungi are out of sight, spending most of their lives hidden as a vast, threadlike network called mycelium and producing mushrooms — called the fruiting body — only when conditions are just ...

Invasive white pine blister rust is killing native evergreens, but a Sheboygan horticulturist at Bookworm Gardens says simple pruning can save infected trees.

Horticulturist Charlie Parks has spent nearly a decade caring for the plantlife at Bookworm Gardens in Sheboygan, but an ...

But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don’t grow well, the American chestnut isn’t extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long ...

In South Central Texas, oak trees aren’t just trees: they’re infrastructure, history and climate protection. Between February ...