All about mushrooms.
Clathrus ruber looks more like an errant pickleball than a traditional toadstool, and it is born from an egg, which some people say tastes like radish. It’s a flashy European transplant now at home in California, worth learning on your next winter fungus foray.
Eucalyptus trees on Albany Hill are wasting away from blight. Some people may cheer—but these trees are also home to endangered monarchs.
A naturalist on the "flowers of winter"
Do mushrooms require a certain kind of substrate?
What are some the biological consequences of climate change in Northern California?
They're one of the most sought-after edible mushrooms in the world. At least 10 species live in the Bay Area.
A mycologist's perspective on the spread of a deadly poisonous mushroom across the United States.
They're long and stringy and they hang from trees in the fog zone ...
Illustrator Jane Kim and the California Center for Natural History share six species to watch for this fall.
Plants make all other life on Earth possible. But most animals don't eat dead plants -- so how do the nutrients plants create get into the environment when the plant dies?
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
