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Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence? By Daniel Immerwahr. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-yea…

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  From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office

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  ‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationa…

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  Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new sc…

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  ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative…

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  Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where gen…

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  Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid?

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  Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Br…

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  My family and other Nazis

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  Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten geni…

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  Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

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  From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the wo…

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  From the archive: From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns a…

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  Chortle chortle, scribble scribble: inside the Old Bailey with Britain’s l…

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  ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player

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  From the archive: ‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’…