Justine Karst, a mycologist at the University of Alberta, feared things had gone too far when her son got home from eighth grade and told her he had learned that trees could talk to each other ...

Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another. This subterranean social ...

It is part of what's popularly known as the Wood Wide Web. This is an underground network of plant roots and fungi that, among other things, allows trees to share nutrients. And scientists say ...