Land water is vanishing faster. Earth's surface struggles to recover, risking food, water, and climate stability.

Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – ...

A new theory of plant evolution suggests that the 400 million-year drive of flora across the globe may not have been propelled by the above-ground traits we can see easily, but by underground ...

Native plants provide both environmental and economic benefits, playing an important role in water protection and ...

Little of America’s energy comes from geothermal sources, but that could change quickly.

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered a new group of microbes living deep underground that help purify ...

Their findings, now published in Science, could help researchers better understand how plants and microbes negotiate their underground ... which nutrients and water can enter the plant's vascular ...

Legislators have made water a priority this session, with the state falling short of ever-increasing demand. Ideas for ...

Instead of using their communication networks to transmit ... Land plants can be connected to a complex, underground fungal network known popularly as 'the wood wide web." Networks emerge because ...

If you're walking outdoors, chances are something remarkable is happening under your feet. Vast fungal networks are silently working to keep ecosystems alive.