So far, 100, 000 trees in England and Scotland have been destroyed by the fungal disease.

BBC: Ash tree

An Essex tree nursery owner who burned 100 ash trees as a precaution against a fungal disease says government action is "too little, too late".

BBC: Essex

Signal crayfish carry a fungal disease known as crayfish plague that has wiped out the native crayfish from most rivers in the south of England.

BBC: American signal crayfish invade Northumberland river

But their numbers have declined dramatically in North America, where a fungal disease called white nose syndrome is estimated to have killed more than 5.5 million.

CNN: Architects building dream homes for bats

Starbucks will test growing methods for eradicating a fungal disease known as coffee rust, which is shrinking Central American coffee harvests 25 percent on average this year, sending shock waves throughout the industry.

FORBES: Pathological Collaboration: Cure for the Java Jitters?

This week's unusual twist comes in the shape of a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which suggests a very different relationship between two of the major amphibian threats: loss of habitat, and the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.

BBC: Double whammy for the disappearing frogs

Prof Kowalski named the new fungal species Chalara fraxinea - but as the disease spread across the continent, he realised that something was not quite right.

BBC: Ash dieback: Chalara fungus 'originated in Asia'