Fungi and Climate Change: Understanding the Relationship Mycology, the study of Fungi, is a vast and diverse field with many subfields that delve into different aspects of the fungal kingdom. One such subfield that has garnered significant interest in recent years is the study of fungi and its relationship with climate change. Climate change, also known as global warming, is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. It refers to the long-term changes in Earth’s average atmospheric temperature, attributed primarily to human activities.