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Why do Trees Talk to Each Other?
Season 7
Episode 17
The “Wood Wide Web” is a massive and intricate network of fungi that exchange water, nutrients, and chemical signals with the plants they’re living in a symbiotic relationship with. This network of fungi is essential to the health and function of forests and to controlling climate change itself. You’re about to look at fungi in a whole new way!
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