In 1927, Robert Gordon Wasson and his wife, Valentina, spent their honeymoon in the Catskills in what would turn out to be a life-altering experience. On a walk through the woods, they came across a ...

The world of fungi is utterly complex and virtually unknown to us, but biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake is working on the second part. He not only studies the interconnected lives of plants, ...

It’s time the world wakes up to these prolific wonders that can be found anywhere and everywhere Guy Kelly has been writing features, interviewing household names and, with mixed success, attempting ...

The world of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM fungi) runs deep. They live symbiotically with around 70 percent of Earth’s ...

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In the misty mizzle of February on the Oregon coast, Merlin Sheldrake feels at home. Though he was born and raised in London, the biologist and award-winning author of “Entangled Life” toddled his ...

What can we learn from fungi? How might we work with them to adapt to the radical change of our times? What secrets lie beneath our feet? This December, audiences in Auckland and Australia will have ...

Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist and author, is doing his best to show the world all the amazing things fungi can do to benefit life on a damaged planet. By Tatiana Schlossberg About 500 million years ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Merlin Sheldrake, 34, received a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge university for his work on underground fungal ...