The trees are talking to each other. But it doesn’t happen all the time. They appear to be able to pass down their ecological knowledge from older trees to younger trees, in the event of a solar ...

Is it possible that trees perceive the approach of a solar eclipse? This question arose after a surprising observation in the Italian mountains, where unusual electrical signals were detected in ...

We may very well be able to translate plant languages soon, scientists claim. While you might think of plants as passive objects just existing on our planet, they are, in fact, living beings, and they ...

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.

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. Trees aren’t just competing for sunlight and soil—they’re also looking out for one another. Scientist Suzanne Simard reveals the unexpected ways trees ...

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?

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) -Scientists have been studying soil fungal networks for years, but what led them to the possibility of trees communicating through fungus? University of Mississippi professor, ...

You’ve probably heard the stories: that through an intricate network of underground fungi, trees send nutrients and warning signals back and forth to one another. In Pulitzer Prize-wining novels, New ...

Marking trees are important hotspots of communication for cheetahs: Here they exchange information with and about other cheetahs via scent marks, urine and scats. A team has now shown that several ...