The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

A newly named Australian tree nicknamed the “zombie tree” cannot reproduce because of a deadly fungal disease.

This is the first instance of this crop produced in this medium. Chickpeas aren’t the first crop that comes to mind when you think about lunar agriculture. But a new study suggests the humble legume ...

Scientists are closer to being able to grow crops on the moon after successfully cultivating chickpeas in simulated lunar ...

Mold and fungus do not wait on the sidelines. They move fast, spread faster, and attack when plants sit at their most ...

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

With National Invasive Species Awareness Week underway, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is warning residents about the effects of invasive species on the environment.

A rare but potentially deadly fungal infection known as histoplasmosis is sickening a cluster of people in Tennessee. Dozens of histoplasmosis cases have been reported in middle Tennessee since last ...

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 ...

Hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities are struggling to gain ground on a drug-resistant and deadly fungus that has infected at least 7,000 people in 2025, according to tracking by the ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has investigated how these plant defenses ...