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Unexplainable

Talking trees

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Studies suggesting trees communicate through an elaborate underground fungal network have captured imaginations. It’s a beautiful idea, but the fantasy may have gotten ahead of the science. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Help keep this show and all of Vox's journalism free by making a gift to Vox today: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and

0:05.4

justice produced with Vox Creative.

0:09.0

Thousands of Afghans fled their homes when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021.

0:14.2

The UK government promised to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year

0:18.9

only 22 Afghans had been approved for asylum in the UK.

0:23.2

So what happened?

0:24.2

And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?

0:28.4

For that story, on the latest episode of Into the Mix.

0:32.6

Hey, it's Noam.

0:36.1

For the past couple months, our reporter, Mandy Nguyen, has been curious about how plants

0:40.7

interact with the world.

0:42.5

She did an episode about whether plants can see.

0:45.1

Definitely check that one out if you missed it.

0:47.4

And it was eye-opening to me because it reminded me just how little we really know about

0:52.9

what plants are capable of.

0:55.7

This week, she heads out into the forest in search of something even weirder.

1:03.8

Growing up in Northern California, I got really familiar with redwood trees.

1:07.6

I go hiking all the time and I'd love looking at the ferns, the Huckleberry bushes, and

1:12.4

the trees.

1:14.2

But what I was looking at was just a small part of the forest.

1:17.8

There was a hidden world underground.

1:22.6

They really underlie life on Earth as we know it.

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