GoKawiilNature's Roundup: New Books Probe Forests, Mind's Depths and Ocean Frontier
A batch of newly reviewed titles spans wildly different territory: Suzanne Simard's account of her Mother Tree Project reforestation effort in British Columbia, Antonio Melechi's historical survey of theories about the unconscious mind, and Jeffrey Marlow's exploration of the little-studied deep ocean floor. A fourth title, Valerie Tiberius's Artificially Yours, is also noted among the season's book releases.
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These works highlight how much remains scientifically unmapped, from the depths of the ocean floor to the human psyche, even as large-scale interventions like mass tree planting move forward with government backing. Together they underscore a recurring theme in science publishing: humanity acts on ecosystems and ideas it has barely begun to fully understand.
- Simard's Mother Tree Project has planted 225,000 trees across an area as large as Denmark since 2015.
- Marlow notes scientists have observed less than 0.001% of the deep sea floor despite it covering most of Earth's habitable volume.
- Melechi's history of the unconscious spans Hippocrates to Freud but notably skips Francis Crick's consciousness work.
Suzanne Simard "Finding the Mother Tree — Before diving into Simard's new Mother Tree Project book, start with her acclaimed memoir Finding the Mother Tree, which lays out her groundbreaking research on how forest trees communicate and share resources. It's the perfect companion read for anyone captivated by the 225,000-tree experiment in British Columbia described in the article.
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