According to the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, there are more than 6 million species of fungi worldwide, many of which are mushrooms. People tend to confuse them with ...

'TOADSTOOL' is a rather coarse-sounding name for growths that can be dainty. I recently found a group of some two dozen toadstools that were delicate in the extreme. Perched on 3in, flimsy white stems ...

Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. You may be familiar with the red ...

IN this book the general results of investigations carried out over sixty years by a great number of workers is brought together and presented in a form that should appeal to the layman. It concerns ...