According to Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened ...

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...

Golden oyster mushrooms, native to Asia, were brought to North America around the early 2000s. They’re part of an international mushroom culinary craze that has been feeding into one of the world’s ...

Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...

Albumin is the most common protein in the blood, a vital molecule produced by the liver that helps maintain fluid balance and ...

For decades, a silent killer has slaughtered frogs and salamanders around the world by eating their skins alive. Now, a global team of 41 scientists has announced that the pathogen—which humans ...

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species ...

Telipogon cruentilabrum is one of four new rare and spectacular Telipogon species described in 2025 by Dr Carlos Martel, ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...