When a plant is stressed, it doesn’t keep quiet about it. You won’t hear the plant’s cry because it’s in the ultrasonic range — too high-pitched for human ears — but, for decades, scientists have been ...

Winter can be brutal on a garden. Frost, ice, and chilling winds strip life from delicate plants and leave even the hardiest ...

In the 1960s and '70s, a series of questionable experiments claimed to prove that plants could behave like humans, that they had feelings, responded to music and could even take a polygraph test.

A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives. By Elizabeth A. Harris Zoë Schlanger was a reporter covering climate change — a daily ...