This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.

Scientists have formally described about 120,000 species of fungus. There might be millions more out there, but fungi are largely hidden. When you think about fungi, you might picture showy mushrooms, ...

Each fungus may “speak” with many other species— and it turns out they have a lot to say. Although most of us think of fungi as “mushrooms,” these spore-producing bodies are just the reproductive ...