Five young Lebanese designers spent a week in the mountains of Baskinta, Lebanon, learning how to create materials directly from nature.

Diapers take up a whole lot of waste. Inspired by plastic-eating mushrooms discovered 14 years ago, Tero Isokauppila created mushroom-based diapers that break down on their own.

Analysis - If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, you're walking over a vast underground patchwork of fungal filaments, ...

Unlike organic waste, plastics can take hundreds of years to decompose-and sometimes, they never do. Yet, a silent savior may ...

Although many of us spend allergy season cursing out plant pollen, spores from mold and other fungi also deserve some of that ...

“Many, many moons ago, fungi evolved to break down trees ... The company says it needs to do more research to find out how the product will decompose in real-world conditions in different climates and ...

What do Fungi, Chameleons, and Humans All Have in Common? We’re all Heterotrophs From chameleons to ghostly plants, Earth’s life forms have evolved ingenious ways to eat.