Topic: fungus

A wildlife biologist checking the wings of a Big Brown Bat for signs of White-nose Syndrome. (Getty Images/JasonOndreicka)

Hope treating a deadly disease in bats

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic Pollution in the Ocean (Getty Images/Yunaidi Joepoet)

Scientists report plastic-eating fungus

Rae Hodge
USGS biologist holds an endangered yellow-legged frog recovered from a fire-ravaged stretch of Little Rock Creek, just off Angeles Crest Highway 2 near Wrightwood in the San Gabriel Mountains. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

A fungal pandemic is massacring frogs

Matthew Rozsa
Close-Up Of Cicada On A Tree (Getty Images)

When cicadas become real-life zombies

Matthew Rozsa
A tree sprouting in a forest (Getty Images)

Australian plant species face extinction

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Candida auris in a petri dish at the CDC. (Wikimedia)

Climate crisis created a superbug

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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It's time to study fungus in microbiomes

Adriana Romero-Olivares - Massive Science
Flooding caused by Hurricane Maria in Guadeloupe. (AP/Frank Phazian)

Hurricanes, then a flesh-eating fungus

Sarah Okeson
(Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Bjorn Carey - Popular Science