Justine Karst, a mycologist at the University of Alberta, feared things had gone too far when her son got home from eighth grade and told her he had learned that trees could talk to each other through ...

Trees talk to each other. It’s true! Just ask Dr. Suzanna Simard, professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia and author of the new book, Finding the Mother Tree. Through decades ...

Illustration of alternative C transfer pathways from a hypothetical donor tree to a receiving seedling. Blue arrows represent mechanisms for potential distribution of donor tree C into the soil which ...

Remarkable underground trees have evolved ingenious survival strategies in harsh landscapes, hiding their trunks and branches beneath the soil. These subterranean forests, found in places like South ...

Most people imagine trees stretching skywards, with towering trunks and leafy canopies reaching into the light. But in some of the world’s harshest landscapes, a far stranger form of growth has ...