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Suzanne Simard + Rowan Hooper

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Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar

Rowan Hooper met ecologist Suzanne Simard under an oak tree in Kew Gardens, London, to talk about her new book, criticism of her work, and getting a call from James Cameron's people

Culture

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Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars

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Tree bark microbiome has important overlooked role in climate

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Trees have a microbiome inside them? This is both obvious and profound

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Of the Oak by Marshmallow Laser Feast (c) Marshmallow Laser Feast

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51¶¯Âþ recommends Kew Gardens' new Of the Oak exhibition

Culture

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Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

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Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone

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Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease

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Offsetting global fossil fuel stores by planting trees is impossible

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Clare Hewitt: Everything in the forest is the forest Oak leaf lumen prints exposed to the sun on the forest floor

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Dazzling oak leaf prints merge science and nature

Artist Clare Hewitt uses fallen oak leaves and sunlight to create her works of art before returning the leaves to the forest

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Life

Images capture the timeless beauty of America's ancient forests

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Environment

Trees capture toxic fingerprint of gold mining in the Amazon

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Tree scars reveal how wildfires in centuries past differed from today

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A sliver of lab-grown wood has been made from stem cells

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