“When around 70 percent of your 1,500- to 2,000-year-old trees died within 12 years, it certainly is not normal,” Erika Wise, a geographer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who was not ...

The gigantic Baobab is an iconic species belonging to the African Continent. This tree has been a part of African cultures, traditions, remedies and folktales for centuries. The origin of this ...

Tracing history through the baobab and tamarind reveals hidden paths of human migration and forgotten suffering.

Baobab trees live to be very old and grow to be very tall. The Sunland “Big baobab” in Limpopo Province in South Africa reached 22 metres high and 47 metres in circumference before it toppled ...

an old, decommissioned railway line, bullet-ridden buildings and other structures that bear scars of fire exchange between British and German forces. Then there is a baobab tree. At first glance ...

Baobabs, he said, are among the oldest trees in the country that should be protected. Kilifi, for example, he said, hosts one of the largest baobab trees estimated to be between 1500 and 1600 ...