Pando is the largest organism on Earth, consisting of about 40,000 genetically identical trees. Sound designer Jeff Rice recorded what this organism's vast root system sounds like in a rainstorm. The ...

Pando consists of 40,000, or so, trees that are genetically identical.VW Pics / Contributor / Getty Images Pando is the largest organism on Earth, consisting of about 40,000 genetically identical ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

An ecologist from Utah State University is warning one of the world’s largest living things, a colony of genetically identical trees sharing a single root system, is in danger of breaking up into ...

Standing in the Pando aspen grove puts you in the belly of a 13-million-pound beast. While it may look like an ordinary forest, each tree is actually a branch attached to one of the oldest and largest ...

Behold the Pando aspen clone, a sprawling carpet of vibrant green-yellow quaking aspens occupying more than 100 acres outside the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. The “Trembling Giant,” as it is ...

What looks like 47,000 separate trees spread out over 106 acres in Utah are actually all offshoots from a single, massive Aspen tree root. It’s known as Pando and it is believed to be the largest ...

Pando, Latin for ‘I spread,’ appears to be a forest but is actually one massive tree. Weighing 13 million pounds, Pando is one of the world’s largest living organisms. It has thrived in Utah’s ...

The largest single organism in the world could soon fracture into smaller pieces. According to research published in the journal Conservation Science and Practice, this enormous forest organism, known ...