Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests. "We now see the forest not as a ...
Beneath the forest floor lies an invisible web where trees exchange nutrients and even warnings. Scientists call it the “Wood Wide Web,” and it reveals that trees may be far more connected than we ...
Beneath your boots in any temperate forest lies a hidden web of life that’s smarter and more connected than most people ever ...
For centuries, humans have wondered if trees are more than passive bystanders in nature. Do they sense? Do they communicate? Some researchers think so, but a new study claiming that spruce trees "talk ...
Trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in cooperative ways that hold lessons for humans, too, ecologist Suzanne Simard says. Simard grew up in Canadian forests as a descendant ...