Urbanization is reshaping soil microbial communities worldwide, driving an unexpected homogenization of bacterial populations ...

Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – ...

If you're walking outdoors, chances are something remarkable is happening under your feet. Vast fungal networks are silently working to keep ecosystems alive.

Dark, dramatic and dead set on decomposition, soil is alive. Heaving with microbes, worms, fungi and insects, it’s a hive of activity right beneath our feet. Find out the dirt on soil’s drama. In just ...

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what would become soil. In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic ...

Fungi are a kingdom of their own, neither plant nor animal. They’ve been around for millions of years. They sustain plants and are crucial for making soil and keeping life going. But we’re only just ...

The soil fungus Mortierella alpina has the potential to make agriculture greener and more sustainable: The fungus produces ...

Mycorrhizae (from the Greek words for fungus and root) is a general term describing a symbiotic relationship between a soil fungus and plant root. Unlike rhizobia and their legume partners ...

And the right conditions include damp, well-mulched, and warm soil. Read more: How To Repel Bugs Naturally The fungus gnat ...

Steven Weersing survived both the Joplin tornado and the potentially fatal fungus that spread among survivors — now he's ...