Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated kingdom of the natural world. During a billion years of evolution, they’ve become masters of survival. And yet ...

Fungi, which constitute a separate kingdom in the classification of living things, can end up falling through the cracks. To correct this oversight, some are now pushing for an extra f ...

In the "Fungal Conservation Pledge", the initiative aimed at establishing fungi as an independent and prioritized kingdom of life within global biodiversity agreements, the two countries aim to ...

As world leaders debate ways to reduce carbon emissions at the UN's COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, an Australian ...

Credit: ITV Channel What is the difference between a mushroom and a fungus? Fungi aren't plants or animals - but make up ...

But the dozens of species that enthusiasts and experts collected on a recent morning represent just a tiny fraction of life ...

argues for the "recognition of fungi" as an "independent kingdom of life in legislation, policies and agreements", so as to "advance their conservation". The pledge urges signatory nations to ...

"The movements of plant and fungi to land have irreversibly modified our planet physically and shaped their own biodiversity as well as that of the animal kingdom," said Khidir Hilu, professor ...

One of the most promising sources of innovative foods is fungi—a diverse kingdom of organisms that naturally produce a huge range of tasty and nutritious proteins, fats, antioxidants, and flavor ...

"Fungi are essential for all terrestrial ecosystems. They confer all kinds of benefits to plants, from salt tolerance, heavy metal tolerance, disease resistance," Honan said. "Basically, without ...