Beatrix Potter: bestselling author, artist – and expert on our native mushrooms
Saturday 25 February 2012
Potter's science paper to be presented to society that rejected it in 1897 because she was a woman
Orange goo in Alaska was fungal spores, not tiny eggs
Saturday 20 August 2011
An orange-coloured goo that streaked the shore of a remote Alaska village turned out to be fungal spores, not millions of microscopic eggs as indicated by a preliminary analysis.
The fungi you need to know: How to pick a wild mushroom that won't poison you
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Falling in love, they say, is like eating an unknown mushroom. You never know it's the real thing until it is too late. This summer is already producing crops of wild mushrooms – ceps, chanterelles, summer truffles and other delicious kinds, which are appearing in profusion in the warm, damp woodland soil.
Leading article: Green giants
Saturday 26 February 2011
Some trees are so imposing that it is hard to believe that they can get sick and die.
Flying tonight? Bats under threat
Monday 07 February 2011
Seductive lure of Carsten Höller's living wonderland
Friday 31 December 2010
Twelve castrated male reindeer, 12 canaries, reindeer urine, fly agaric mushrooms and two houseflies of indeterminate sex. So reads the list of materials used in Carsten Höller's latest exhibition, SOMA, at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin.
Blaze of glory: Building a bonfire is one of autumn's great joys
Sunday 21 November 2010
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, By Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Sunday 31 October 2010
Bat disease threatens ecological catastrophe
Friday 29 October 2010








