On April 15, groundskeeping crew, students, community members and self-described “hippies” gathered around the foot of a tree ...

Antibiotic resistance is a known threat, but a "silent surge" of drug-resistant fungi is the next global health crisis.

Expert Minecraft Gamer SB737 trades the mainland for a unique and challenging environment by attempting to survive and thrive ...

With one survey showing 48% of Midwest corn and soybean growers are unable to afford traditional fertilizer sources, ...

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to ...

Series continued with a class on identifying and foraging one of the Northland's most daunting wild foods: mushrooms. Local mushroom foraging expert Ariel Bonkoski, owner of the Duluth-based Ariel's ...

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus. Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...