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A few weeks ago, the postman brought a white cushioned envelope. The address of the recipient, unknown to us, is in Texas, the return address is ou...

Comme tous les ans en cette période de l’année, le festival Montréal en lumière bat son plein. C’est notamment l’occasion de découvrir de...

In October 2016, Miro and Fanny, in their late twenties, were preparing a trip to Yukon: like thousands of other apprentice adventurers, they were ...

Mycoremediation is the use of fungi to break down organic compounds and pollutants. Mushrooms naturally recycle hydrocarbons. This is particularly ...

The official name of a species is an internationally recognized origin certification: it determines the commercial value of a given mushroom. Thus,...

Numerous species of mushrooms draw on the ground circles which have, at all times, intrigued. The story begins with a spore germinating and releasi...

Toadstools is a British word for suspect mushrooms. In the 5th Century, Germanic tribes, migrating from northern Germany, brought the rather unappe...

From April first to July 20th 1934, Austrian anthropologist David Winkler stayed in a northern Amazonian region where he visited remote Wayampi vil...

Through time and people, mushrooms have had the reputation of boosting sexual ardour.The truffle, for example, had this reputation among ancient Gr...

Serpula lacrymansSome mushrooms do not only bring benefits. In our area of northeastern North America, the dry rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans) has b...

In a public confession written over 21 years ago, disclosed only early this year, Olympic champion Wang Junxia, 46 years old today, and nine of her...

Inonotus obliquusYou must have already seen Chaga high on a tree. At first sight, you thought you had discovered a coal chunk in an unlikely place....