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First fungi survey in Southern Islands in over a century yields species new to S’pore
The rounded fungus the colour of a dried up leaf is easy to miss on the earthen trail, especially at first glance.
Food and Environment Reporting Network18h
How fungi are surviving—and even thriving—in a warming world
Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...
Smithsonian Magazine19h
A Fungal Disease Ravaged North American Bats. Now, Researchers Found a Second Species That Suggests It Could Happen Again
White-nose syndrome caused millions of bat deaths, and scientists are sounding the alarm that a second fungus could be ...
Atomic-level view of plant cell death enzyme offers path to safer crop protection
In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...