It’s raining while I write this. A steady soaking rain that brings the world of plants out of dormancy and into life during the spring. In a rush of budding, sprouting and flowering, trees are taking ...

Under the forest floor, networks of roots and fungi connect individual trees. Older plants may play a role in nurturing the ...

Legend has it that trees talk to each other. You might have even pondered if a falling tree goes unnoticed in an otherwise empty forest. This magical image of talking trees — seen in movies, mythology ...

For centuries, humans have wondered if trees are more than passive bystanders in nature. Do they sense? Do they communicate? Some researchers think so, but a new study claiming that spruce trees "talk ...

Like many people in Beaver County, I grew up in a house next to my grandparents' home, and like many homes, ours was backed up to a decent-sized patch of woods. If you went in the woods and down the ...

People who had a childhood habit of befriending trees in their backyards or their schools- just so that they could have a ‘TALK’ with nature- well, they might actually get a response now! The only ...