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Underground fungi absorb up to a third of our fossil fuel emissions

Researchers estimate that plants transfer more than 13 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide each year to mycorrhizal fungi, which grow around their roots

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Cardioglossa melanogaster, a species of African frog

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Fungus that kills frogs and salamanders is rapidly spreading in Africa

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Ecologists are infecting trees with fungi to make them age prematurely

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Mycelium of mushroom. Mycorrhizal association, the fungus colonizes the host plant's root tissues. Mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association. Mycorhize. - Image ID: BDF3AY (RF)

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Adding wild fungi to soil could make trees store more carbon

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Mushrooms growing around the base of a tree in a forest

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Do trees communicate via a 'wood wide web'? The evidence is lacking

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Bioluminescent fungi

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Fake mushroom experiment reveals why some fungi glow in the dark

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Oyster mushrooms

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Oyster mushroom fungus uses nerve gas to paralyse and eat tiny worms

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Ganoderma lucidum growing on dying wood

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Computer chip made using mushroom skin could be easily recycled

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Roberto Garc?a-Roa

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Grisly photo of a zombie fungus bursting from a fly wins competition

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Cup fungus (Dasyscyphella nivea) covered in water droplets, beside Zygote fungi (Zygomycota), close up. Hertfordshire, England, UK. November. Focus stacked image.

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Fungi evolved their weird and wild shapes in two big bursts

The vast array of shapes that fungi can take, including colourful mushroom caps and tangles of thread-like moulds, evolved in two big bursts hundreds of millions of years ago

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Tropical birds build nests from fungi that may keep parasites at bay

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UK mushroom growing uses 100,000 m³ of peat a year – can we do better?

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Slug poo helps mushrooms start new colonies by spreading spores

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The eerie bioluminescence of the ghost fungus in all its glory

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