Jamestown artist Wendy Bale preparing her ceramic Mushroom Menagerie. Wood Wide Web opens at Pearl City Clay House on Jan. 12. The Pearl City Clay House, 220 E. Second St., will host a new duo ...

Bayreuth researchers shed light on the natural evidence for the occurrence and function of networks of fungi and plants—so-called mycorrhizal networks. Through this "Wood Wide Web," plants can ...

In recent years, naturalists all around the world have fallen in love with the “wood wide web” — a vast network of mycorrhizal fungi that attach to the roots of ...

Michelle Gamage is a Vancouver-based journalist with an environmental focus who regularly reports on climate for The Tyee. You can find her on Twitter @Michelle_Gamage. Scientists are duelling over ...

Over the past few years, a fascinating narrative about forests and fungi has captured the public imagination. It holds that the roots of neighboring trees can be connected by fungal filaments, forming ...

The idea that trees communicate and share resources with each other via an underground network of fungi, sometimes called the “wood wide web”, has little evidence to back it up, say researchers who ...

In 1999, a team of scientists led by Christian Körner did what thousands of people do every Christmas: they wrapped Norway spruce trees in tubes. Except this was in March, not December. And the trees ...

A study in the journal Nature counts 228 billion trees growing in the United States. Wherever we go, from the deserts of Arizona to the streets of Manhattan, it’s rare that our gaze doesn’t fall on ...