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Suzanne Simard Defends “Wood Wide Web” Theory Amid Growing Scientific Backlash

Ecologist Suzanne Simard has spent decades studying forests and the complex systems that sustain them. Her research has helped popularize a controversial idea: that trees communicate and cooperate through...

Suzanne Simard Defends “Wood Wide Web” Theory Amid Growing Scientific Backlash

Ecologist Suzanne Simard has spent decades studying forests and the complex systems that sustain them. Her research has helped popularize a controversial idea: that trees communicate and cooperate through underground networks of fungi linking their roots. This concept, widely known as the “wood wide web,” has fascinated the public...

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