In a chilling echo of the popular video game TV series adaptation The Last of Us – a post-apocalyptic story about survival in a world ravaged by a fungal infection – the fungi could soon spread across ...

Scientists from Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and the University of Melbourne have uncovered evidence that climate change may already be affecting truffle-like fungi relied upon by the Potorous ...

Scientists in Australia are using cutting-edge DNA techniques to help save one of the world’s rarest marsupials — the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo, with fewer than 150 left in the wild. By ...

FORBES, Australia – Across 100,000 acres (40,468 hectares) in the vast agricultural heartland of Australia, an unusual approach is taking root to slow down the wrecking ball of climate change. Farmers ...

Having a comprehensive understanding of fungi – their distribution, populations and reproduction – will be critical to understanding the threats to their conservation. But we’ve got a long way to go, ...

Fall armyworm's relentless march across the globe has threatened the food security of 600 million people in more than 80 countries, but it may have finally met its match in native Australian flora and ...

As temperatures drop and wet weather sets in, fungi enthusiasts are braving the elements searching for rare finds. In SA's South East, despite a late start to the fungi season, people are grabbing ...

A mushroom is only the ephemeral sporing mechanism of the ­fungus; the organism itself is a mass of thin hollow filaments that fuse, branch and grow into a network known as mycelium. ­Mycelium ...