Environmentally conscious Brits have a new burial option with the world's first 'living coffin'—crafted from fungi. These ...

New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the ...

This awakening to what fungi can do,” says local micological enthusiast Darren Racussen. “It will reshape food, materials, science, spirituality, our relationship with nature and each other — it is ...

Perhaps the fungi are listening in on their plant partners, detecting when one has been attacked, and warning the others to prepare themselves." Co-author Professor Toby Kiers (Vrije Universiteit ...

Rather than helping each other out when they're attacked, plants may have to eavesdrop on each other to know when to launch their own defenses.

Cutting-edge editing techniques are accelerating efforts to create high-yield, resilient varieties of major agricultural products.

Do you have a sweet tooth? If so, thank a plant! Plants have the superhero-like ability of turning an invisible gas that is in the air all around us – carbon dioxide – into something ...

CARLSBAD League of Women Voters holds celebration The League of Women Voters of North County San Diego hosts a birthday celebration at 2 p.m. Feb. 22 to mark the 105th anniversary of the founding of ...

“We work with the partner-clients to prepare the environment to be ready for the trees as well as the truffle fungus,” he said. “You plant and then you wait. But in the meantime, you have to ...

A healthy chickpea plant (a116, left) compared to an infected plant (a115, right) Dr. Björn Krenz, head of the Plant Virus Department at t ...

For people, the freeze and snow have brought most things to a standstill. But wildlife natives like cypress trees and prairie plants, and cold-blooded gators and snakes, should be alright.