Yet, fungi are surprisingly abundant in soil from Brazil's Amazon rainforest. To help protect the Amazon rainforest, which is being lost at an ever-faster rate, it is essential to understand the ...

Strobel speculates, "If fungi like this are producing myco-diesel all over the rainforest, they may have contributed to the formation of fossil fuels." Strobel is the lead author of the paper ...

Our planet is filled with a stunning diversity of plants and fungi. These images invite you to gaze up ... Inside, huge trees were thriving – a lush mix of palms, broad-leaved trees and climbers – ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Martin Cheek, a conservation botanist for the Royal Botanic Gardens, about new plant and fungus species he and his colleagues discovered this year.