You can't walk very far through a forest in this part of the United States without stumbling upon a mushroom, an eruption from a vast fungal kingdom that all life depends on, but about which we know very little.
It is thought that there are only 29 adult individuals growing in the wild and a very small number in cultivation.
By Stephen Beech via SWNS Microbes in urban areas are evolving to resist the cleaning products used to eliminate them, warns new research. New strains have also been discovered living in cities that were previously only found in Antarctic desert soil, say scientists. Chinese researchers identified novel strains of microbes that have adapted to use […]
Fewer than 15 percent of countries have submitted plans to slow the destruction of nature ahead of a global biodiversity summit in Colombia, according to a count shared by the United Nations Wednesday.
Down a dirt track in Colombia, deep in a forest, conservationists are breeding prized exotic frogs to try to undercut traffickers who are plundering the country's jungles of its amphibians.
Clinging to a fluffy toy twice her size, orphaned koala joey Ajooni made a snuffling noise as she drank milk from a tiny syringe.

