That is because policies and legislation aimed at protecting the natural world are often written in the language of flora and fauna, terms that describe a region’s plants and animals respectively.

Persepolis, the most well-known ancient site in Iran, is being threatened by tiny lichens eating away at the monuments. These ...

The UK and Chile are proposing at the UN’s biodiversity conference COP16 in Colombia that fungi receive the same status to ...

the lawn and other nearby places—and all are littered with lichens as are the tree trunks. Seek, the iNaturalist identification app, may be wonderful for identifying plants, but not so good with fungi ...

Fungi are the “firmament of life on Earth,” experts say but don’t get equivalent protections of plants and animals ...

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The NMA and wider foraging community emphasize how those harvesting fungi must ultimately take responsibility for identifying ...

Volunteers have also found wildlife that’s unique to temperate rainforests including rare lichens, mosses and liverworts. Ben said: “It’s been great to be part of this project, and I’ve found so many ...

The symbiosis between corals and algae, observed in fossil reefs 385 million years old, allowed for an explosion of life that ...

Two examples of the fungus were found by amateur naturalist Ben Mitchell as part of the West Cowal Habitat Restoration Project.

Fungi borrowed bacterial gene again and again Endosymbiotic relationships — in which a microbial partner lives harmoniously within the cells of another organism — are found in numerous life ...

That glorious sound is not as close to the house as it once was, not as vibrant. It emanates from branches farther away, from trees closer to the forest. The birds that once called the old maple home ...