Nearly all life-forms depend on the estimated 2.5 million fungi species on Earth, but they've been largely neglected by conservation efforts.

“It’s a pretty exciting time in fungal conservation,” said Allen, mycologist for NatureServe, a hub for biodiversity data throughout North America. In that role, Allen is helping accelerate and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have launched a new campaign to protect mushrooms, lichens and other fungi threatened by climate change and habitat ...

The start of February, marked by the pre-Christian festival of Imbolc, later absorbed into St Brigid’s Day, carries with it a promise: winter has loosened its grip, making way for the relief of ...

Nicholas Carter does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The patches of lichen you’ve probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they’re actually some of the world’s strangest living things. While they're sometimes ...

The Negev desert of southern Israel is renowned for its unique rock art. Since at least the third millennium BCE, the hunters, shepherds, and merchants who roamed the Negev have left thousands of ...

I know many of us want winter to come to an end, but I would like just one more good snowstorm. I love all seasons, but I need a little more of that winter bleakness in the woods, primarily to help me ...

Not every biologist is fortunate enough to discover two new species on the very campus where they teach, but Florida Gulf Coast University professor and researcher William Sanders did just that ...

Lichens are a complex life form that consists of a partnership (a symbiosis) between two different organisms — a fungus and a photosynthetic organism — usually an alga or a cyanobacteria ...

It’s been estimated that some 20,000 species of lichens cover 6 to 8% of the planet’s land surfaces, even though referring to the existence of even one species of lichen is just plain crazy talk. In ...