Scientists describe this exchange of substances, such as water and nitrogen, as communicating. This communication idea received a big boost in 2015 when German forester Peter Wohlleben laid out his ...

As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada’s old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls of ...

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 ...

Humans have a long history of assuming that not only are we the smartest organism on the planet, but also that everything else is dumber than it really is. For generations, people thought animals were ...

Is it possible that trees perceive the approach of a solar eclipse? This question arose after a surprising observation in the Italian mountains, where unusual electrical signals were detected in ...