When Suzanne Simard was a child, she would eat humus — the sweet layer of topsoil that most of us leave underfoot. “I was always putting dirt in my mouth,” she says. “It just became part of who I was.

Meadow Lake is the inspiration for a new children's book by a Maple Ridge author celebrating the quaking aspen tree. 'Mother ...

O ct. 9—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 ...

Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard upended the way we think about the natural world with her groundbreaking Finding the Mother ...

Forest ecology professor Simard artfully blends science with memoir in her eye-opening debut on the “startling secrets” of trees. Simard explains that trees are “linked by a system of ...

Ecologist Suzanne Simard famously says that trees are “social creatures.” Like humans, they converse with one another, help each other out when in trouble, and even form bonds. One of these bonds is ...

It is a sunny day and I am scrambling through stinging nettles. It’s a shortcut to my favourite forest path. I pass trees.

From Suzanne Simard to Ed Yong, science journalists and researchers have probed the myriad ways plants and animals communicate: chemical signals amid old-growth redwoods, interplay between insects ...

With the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, conducted by Jessica Cottis. Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard’s forest research led her to discover that trees "talk" to each other; they co ...

She will be talking about her new book, "Another England", at the Queen’s Park Book Festival on 31 August Simard’s extraordinary account of her discovery that trees can communicate through ...

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