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Can Mushrooms Help Extinguish Toxic Waste?

Fungus is usually a good sign of things going bad. But it can also indicate... (more)

Naoki Nitta
Manufacturing Psilocybin isn’t Difficult. Building a Legal Industry Is.

In a second building on his property in Springfield, Oregon, Gared Hansen grows mushrooms containing... (more)

Lena Beck
November 27, 2023
Fungi Are Coming For Us

As Emily Monosson points out in her new book, Blight, fungi are everywhere. There are... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
July 18, 2023
Huitlacoche, a Mexican Fungus, is Popping Up On Restaurant Menus Across the...

Carolina Aboumrad, a restaurant supplier, was having lunch at a Mexican eatery in Los Angeles.... (more)

Megan Zhang
June 20, 2023
As Chaga Keeps Trending, Mycologists Worry About Running Out

Garrett Kopp learned to harvest wild chaga alongside his grandmother in the Adirondack Mountains of... (more)

Tammy Kuepfer
June 9, 2023
Is Your Favorite New Mushroom Eradicating Native Mushroom Species?

Golden oyster mushrooms, with sunny-golden thumbprint caps, branch-like gills and clusters of fruiting bodies, are... (more)

Natalie Jesionka
May 1, 2023
Opinion: It’s Time to Include Fungi in Conservation Goals

Without fungi, life on Earth would be unrecognizable. So why aren't they catalogued and understood... (more)

Matt Kasson, Brian Lovett and Patricia Kaishian
June 5, 2022
Opinion: Does Adding Fungi to Soil Do More Harm Than Good?

The use of mycorrhizal fungi—fungi that grow on plant roots—as biofertilizers is becoming more common.... (more)

Miranda Hart
March 29, 2022
How Australia is Demystifying the Secretive World of Truffles

“Find it!” Taz, the fox-red Labrador, darts excitedly between rows of French and English oak... (more)

Denise Cullen
August 8, 2021
Home Gardeners Discover the Fun of Growing Fungi

At the beginning of 2020, things were looking good for mushroom growers Sam Turner and... (more)

Shelby Vittek
March 29, 2021
The Untapped Potential of Mushrooms

From ecology to fermentation to medicine—mushrooms are everywhere. With an explorer’s eye, journalist Doug Bierend... (more)

Doug Bierend
March 10, 2021