Michael Cunliffe received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project MYCO-CARB and currently receives funding from the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme for the projects MARCO ...

Marine fungi isolated from around O'ahu eating polyurethane plastic. The translucent halos around the fungal plugs on the Petri dish show the areas of plastic degradation. Plastic is the most ...

On average, Americans eat, drink, inhale, and absorb through their skin a credit card’s worth of microplastics each week. And, because these tiny particles don’t naturally dissolve in the body, this ...

TAKE a walk along a seashore almost anywhere in the world and you will probably see colourful patches of life growing on rocks, sea walls and driftwood. These are lichens, mutualistic partnerships ...