Palm trees grace the landscape across Africa, thriving in environments as diverse as deserts and rainforests. Central Africa ...

As Africa’s population climbs toward 2.5 billion, its farms face a big challenge: produce more food without raising emissions ...

SAT-CARe forms part of the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence on Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change, convened by the African Research Universities Alliance and The Guild of European ...

Despite typical lifespans of hundreds or even thousands of years, Africa’s baobab trees are dying off rapidly, according to a new study by ecologists. Also known as upside-down trees, baobabs, with ...

Driving beyond South Africa’s Limpopo province, into the village of Chivadini, people and grassland are scarce. But the oldest living organisms in Africa — baobab trees — are abundant. These spectral ...

Halfway around the world from the Front Range and in a different hemisphere lie mountains with growing conditions similar to the Rockies. And the plant life of the Drakensberg (Afrikaans for Dragon ...

The baobab tree, sometimes called the “Tree of Life,” has an unforgettable appearance. Found in savanna regions of Africa, Madagascar and Australia, the trees form a very thick and wide trunk and ...

Baobab trees — an icon of the African continent and the heart of many traditional African remedies and folklore — are dying across the continent, and scientists are trying to understand why. A study ...

People in the Bay Area have remarkable things in their front yards: baroquely pruned trees, topiary squirrels and kangaroos, sheet-metal dinosaurs. Bottle trees are rare, though. We knew they had to ...