Mycelium are incredibly tiny threads of fungal organisms that wrap around or bore into tree roots, composing what's called a mycorrhizal network that connects individual plants together. These dense ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Climate journalist Zoë Schlanger says research suggests that plants are indeed "intelligent" in complex ways that challenge our understanding of... Plants can communicate and respond to touch. Does ...

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 ...

Every other Friday, NHPR's Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week’s question comes from Jenna in Cupertino, Calif. How do plants communicate with each other?

In the 1960s and '70s, a series of questionable experiments claimed to prove that plants could behave like humans, that they had feelings, responded to music and could even take a polygraph test.

PUTNEY — Mother Trees and the Social Forest will be the topic of a special Zoom program hosted by Trees for Good on Wednesday, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Beneath the forest floor, trees are communicating and ...