Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the  Atlantic, where she covers climate change. She is the author of The Light Eaters, a New York Times bestselling book about plant behavior and intelligence research, published by HarperCollins. The Light Eaters is a New York Times bestseller dubbed a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom. It is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence.