Mushroom Boom: Hobby records show climate-change boost

Mushrooms in England are both popping up earlier and staying around longer than they used to, according to 50 years of amateur naturalists’ records. Some species have changed their habits so drastically that they’re reproducing twice in the same year.

SNOW CONES. A late-spring snow covers sulfur tuft mushrooms in southern England, where they once fruited only in the fall.