Get the latest Science News and Discoveries

IUCN Sounds Alarm as 411 Fungi Species Face Extinction


Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on Earth, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on Thursday.

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on Science Alert

Read more on:

Photo of Extinction

Extinction

Photo of fungi species

fungi species

Photo of alarm

alarm

Related news:

News photo

Mexican whale researchers sound the alarm on an energy megaproject

News photo

Northernmost record of toxic pufferfish in Mediterranean raises alarm - EurekAlert

News photo

Doctors Sound Alarm: Slushies Linked to Dangerous Illness in Children