Suzanne Simard's new book may change how you see the world, even or especially the parts that are below the ground. "Finding The Mother Tree: Discovering The Wisdom Of The Forest" helps us see what ...

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 ...

A healthy forest hums with aboveground stimuli: deer shuffling through dead leaves, breezes ruffling conifer needles, squirrels dropping seeds. The trees, while they appear to stand still, play an ...

WEST CHESTER — Professor Suzanne Simard, the Canadian researcher who discovered that trees can communicate with each other, spoke at West Chester University to a crowd of over 200 environmental ...

Suzanne Simard, an expert on plant communication and intelligence, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday about her pioneering work in a virtual event held by the Western New York Land Conservancy. Simard ...

Fostering mutual respect with nature is the answer to saving forests and even solving the climate crisis, according to forest ecologist Suzanne Simard. “It comes down to what we do with this concept ...

Imagine what it must have been like for a fledging ecologist to share with her colleagues, mostly men, her notion that trees and plants talk to each other. That’s what Professor Suzanne Simard did ...

Evolution, capitalism and the NFL have all taught that in this world, it’s survival of the fittest, that competition drives an innate need to come out on top by trampling everything that gets in the ...

Suzanne Simard I had breast cancer and it was in my lymphatic system, so I had to go through a pretty strong regimen of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. I think anybody who gets a life-threatening ...

Above all else in the plant kingdom, trees make good trellises for our self-regarding thoughts. Robert Frost knew this when he wrote “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” A woodland is the right spot ...

Michael d’Estries is a co-founder of the green celebrity blog Ecorazzi. He has been writing about culture, science, and sustainability since 2005. His work has appeared on Business Insider, and CNN.

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