Tag Archives: Fungus

In this segment Kalynn Huffman Brower explains how growing mushrooms can be targeted to clean up toxic waste in our land and our water in a process called myco-remediation. 

Producer Kalynn Huffman Brower introduces her series, The Secret Life of Fungi, by describing the root-like structure of mushrooms, and how the underground mycelium connects plants and trees in a vast network throughout our ecosystems.

Walmart and Rural King have been selling plants contaminated with a fungus that the DNR warns could devastate Indiana’s Oak forests. WFHB’s Graham Capito brings us the story.

In this segment Kalynn Huffman Brower explores mushrooms in space, following the success of fungi spores hitching interstellar rides on meteors, as well as traveling into orbit on the skin of human astronauts.

A Japanese car parts supplier is planning to expand its manufacturing operations in Columbus, Indiana; A Facebook page called Monroe County Elections is causing concern among Monroe County Election Board members; A 30-year old man has reportedly made a plea-deal with Bloomington Police, after around 300 Indiana University students landed in Las Vegas with no place to stay; The Indiana Department of Natural …