Mushrooms

Mycelium leather – a bio-fabricated material made from the roots of fungi – has growing potential to scale up.

Decoding the language of fungi could do a lot to help us understand changes in the environment.

Nicola Peel talks about her new DVD, Blood of the Amazon, telling of her travels through the rainforest and her investigations on the effects of reckless oil drilling on indigenous communities

Fed up of paying a premium for supermarket berries and herbs? Take a walk on the wild side and pick your own

Nicola Peel's new film Blood of the Amazon tells the story of the world's largest environmental lawsuit and investigates how the oil industry threatens a fragile rainforest environment. By Jan Goodey

Thought there was no such thing as a free lunch? As Kara Moses found out, Britain’s edible wild plants, berries and nuts can provide exactly that

Warmer weather and reduced frosts linked to climate change are giving a boost to spring mushroom numbers in the UK and Europe

The potential of fungi for medicine, filtering polluted water, controlling pests and even biofuels, is truly staggering

With the worst summer on record decimating his potatoes, onions and other allotment crops, Paul Kingsnorth turns to nature’s abundance in foraged food

This beautiful but deadly plant proliferates in lakes across Africa – choking everything in its path. Why, asks Tom Hargreaves, have all attempts to manage it failed?