World wide web articles
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Mycoheterotrophic plants as a key to the 'Wood Wide Web'
Bayreuth researchers shed light on the natural evidence for the occurrence and function of networks of fungi and plants—so-called mycorrhizal networks. Through this "Wood Wide Web," plants can exchange resources and even information with each other. The researchers have now reported their findings in the journal Nature Plants.
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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? There are a lot of humans. Teeming is perhaps an unkind word, but when 8 billion people cram themselves on to a planet that, three centuries before, held less than a tenth of that number, it seems apt. Eight billion hot-breathed individuals, downloading apps and piling into buses and shoving their plasticky waste into bins – it is a...
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Wolverine World Wide (NYSE:WWW) Trading 2.9% Higher
Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (NYSE:WWW – Get Free Report) shares traded up 2.9% during trading on Monday . The company traded as high as $9.40 and last traded at $9.38. 313,055 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 64% from the average session volume of 860,574 shares. The stock had previously closed at […]