Nature
36 min
How Trees Talk to Each Other
The Geiger counter clicked. The science got strange after that.
Beneath every forest floor lies a fungal network so complex it exchanges carbon between trees — including between species that are supposed to be competing. The discovery upended two centuries of forestry assumptions. But the science is also contested, commercially hyped, and far stranger than the popular headline suggests.
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