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 ...

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 Lena Mueller’s lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, dead plants are OK. “Don’t worry, it’s on purpose,” said Kelly Semtner, Mueller’s high school intern, gesturing at a row of wilted ...

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 ...

The machine, with sharp teeth and a long metal rod, sounds like a kitchen blender, but this is far from your average appliance. “This is a tissue homogenizer,” said Jesse Woodson, an associate ...

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode TED Radio Wow-er. Ecologist Suzanne Simard shares how she discovered that trees use underground fungal networks to communicate and share resources, uprooting the ...

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 ...

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, ...

You do not have to be a nature enthusiast to appreciate the planting of spaced-out trees alongside city sidewalks, giving a splash of color and life to the urban surroundings. However, because of ...

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.