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 ...

Trees take top billing for the tallest plants on Earth, but their unassuming start as a little seed leaves a lot of questions! Let's take a look at what gets you from that seed to a full-grown tree in ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- WCCO's report on a White Bear Lake woman's giant cottonwood tree – one of the biggest in the Twin Cities – struck a chord with our viewers. It also begged the question: What are the ...

Trees can die suddenly or quite slowly. Fire, flood or wind can cause a quick death by severely damaging a tree’s ability to transport water and nutrients up and down its trunk. Sometimes a serious ...

Urban trees often stand at the center of plans to fight rising city temperatures. Their cooling power seems simple and effective. But new research shows that the truth is more complex. Trees do cool ...

In the fantastical world created by J.R.R. Tolkien, there exist giant plant-like creatures called Ents. Though they look like regular trees, they can walk and move at will. Ents can distance ...