The trees are talking to each other. But it doesn’t happen all the time. They appear to be able to pass down their ecological knowledge from older trees to younger trees, in the event of a solar ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. Trees aren’t just competing for sunlight and soil—they’re also looking out for one another. Scientist Suzanne Simard reveals the unexpected ways trees ...

Marking trees are important hotspots of communication for cheetahs: Here they exchange information with and about other cheetahs via scent marks, urine and scats. A team has now shown that several ...

A ground breaking international study has revealed spruce trees not only respond to a solar eclipse but actively anticipate it by synchronising their bioelectrical signals hours in advance into a ...

Marking trees are important hotspots of communication for cheetahs: Here they exchange information with and about other cheetahs via scent marks, urine and scats. A team from the Cheetah Research ...

You’ve probably heard the stories: that through an intricate network of underground fungi, trees send nutrients and warning signals back and forth to one another. In Pulitzer Prize-wining novels, New ...

The idea that trees communicate and share resources with each other via an underground network of fungi, sometimes called the “wood wide web”, has little evidence to back it up, say researchers who ...

Wood from trees provides the framework of our homes and fruits of plants provide all manner of food and drink — fruits and vegetables and hops for beer, grapes for wine, coffee for, well, coffee. Up ...