Autumn is the best time to look for fungi, as it's when most produce their visible fruiting body. But more than 12,000 species live around the UK and plenty of them fruit in other seasons. Important: ...

there were at least 15,000 types of fungi in the UK, some of which could be on the edge of extinction. Citizen scientists are helping to identify fungi across the country, adding to a database of ...

More than 200 patients in England have been infected or contaminated with a drug-resistant fungus first found in ... So far, no UK patient has died from it. The first UK case emerged in 2013.

Fungi could be classed alongside animals and plants as a separate realm for environmental protection under plans drawn up by the UK and Chile. The proposal, submitted to a UN conference on ...

People who get a runny nose during allergy season may have different fungi living in their noses than those who do not. According to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology ...

In Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind, Fortey describes his global experiences with fungi, from mushrooming in the woods of Oxfordshire, UK, and the rainforests of New South Wales, Australia ...