For hundreds of years, Khasi and Jaintia people in Meghalaya, India, have woven the roots of Indian rubber trees into ...

In Northeast India, Meghalaya's tree root bridges are unlike any other. In Cherrapunjee (which was once the wettest place on Earth until the neighboring Mawsynram took over), the locals have trained ...

For the last hundred years, the residents of two tiny Indonesian villages in West Sumatra have used a 30-meter-long bridge formed from the interconnected roots of two trees located on each side of a ...

In the wettest place in the world, you won't cross bridges that were built. You'll cross bridges that were grown. Located in northeast India along the border of Bangladesh, the state of Meghalaya is ...

The double decker living root bridge in Nongriat, Meghalaya — a rare bioengineered marvel grown from rubber fig tree roots by the Khasi tribe over decades. Meghalaya's Double Decker Living Root Bridge ...

It was a cloudy monsoon afternoon, and I had been trailing my guide Bah Drong for over an hour. Despite the slight but persistent drizzle, Bah Drong marched along unfazed, his seasoned calf muscles ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Tree root systems are seldom on the minds of forest owners, tree planters, ...