This was the top winner of the People and Nature category and features a beach in Greece. According to photographer Janusz Jurek, the factory in the background “broke into the sea, taking the beach away from restful people.”
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Fossilized spores confirm that legions of fungi made a meal of Earth’s dying dinosaurs.
The fungus ruining Cavendish banana crops is evolutionarily distinct from a similar disease that famously killed off the Gros Michel bananas.
Scientists in Singapore say they've discovered a sixth major clade of Candida auris, an emerging and often drug-resistant fungal threat.
The Last of Us may be more real than you think. The spread of fungal pathogens in humans and other species are a disaster waiting to happen.
Zombie-creating fungi are an unlikely possibility, but a warmer world will make fungi more of a threat.
