Suzanne Simard wrote “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest” to change people’s thinking about the forest, to make readers see the hidden intelligence of the natural world. The ...

In the book’s introduction, “Connections,” Suzanne Simard relates how her “perception of the woods has been turned upside down.” These “zombie” cells are damaged yet refuse to die. Instead, they ...

EDITORS’ NOTE: Ahead of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s gala on June 4, President Adrian Benepe spoke with the Brooklyn Eagle about tree diversity and the importance of Honoree Dr. Suzanne Simard. For ...

Imagine what it must have been like for a fledging ecologist to share with her colleagues, mostly men, her notion that trees and plants talk to each other. That’s what Professor Suzanne Simard did ...

Opening Suzanne Simard’s new book, Finding the Mother Tree, I expected to learn about the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. I had an inkling that Simard, a forest ecologist at the ...

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 environmental ...

Rycroft is Executive Director of Canopy Planet, a Climate Breakthrough Awardee; Dr. Simard is Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and author of Finding the Mother Tree ...

Simard's new book is "Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest." (Brendan George Ko / Penguin Random House) WHYY is your source for fact-based, in-depth journalism and information ...

The Pacific Coast of North America is a land of deep greens and blues, soft gray skies that bring drenching rain in the winters and dry ochre summers. It’s perfect weather for growing trees that rise ...

Suzanne Simard I had breast cancer and it was in my lymphatic system, so I had to go through a pretty strong regimen of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. I think anybody who gets a life-threatening ...