Only a fraction of some 2.5 million fungi species thought to exist have been formally identified, meaning that assessing the threats they face has been slow compared to flora and fauna.

"Fungi are crucial to all life. Without fungi, an ecosystem can collapse quickly," said Caroline Pollock, Senior Programme Coordinator in IUCN's Red List Unit. Fungi are best known as mushrooms ...

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“Fungi are crucial to all life. Without fungi, an ecosystem can collapse quickly,” said Ms Caroline Pollock, senior programme coordinator in IUCN’s Red List Unit. Fungi are best known as ...

"Fungi are the unsung heroes of life on Earth, forming the very foundation of healthy ecosystems - yet they have long been overlooked,” IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar said after the ...

And yet, fungi have also been integral to the development of life on Earth. In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them. “Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists ...

by Mary Elizabeth Banning, a self-taught mycologist who studied fungi in her home state of Maryland ... The manuscript was Miss Banning’s life’s work, and she yearned to see it published.

And it was that volume of data that enabled this view into how these fungi live and work: how they have sensed their environments, regulated themselves, solved complex transportation and trade ...

Real-life 'zombie-making' fungi burrow into their host's flesh and ... or head - raining spores on the ants below and starting the cycle again. 'Ultimately the entire inside of the ant can ...

"Fungi are the unsung heroes of life on Earth, forming the very foundation of healthy ecosystems - yet they have long been overlooked,” IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar said after the red list ...