Selina Denman charts the story of this part of East Africa--where African, Arab and European influences merge--as well as her own chapter in it.

Visit Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1982 and the world’s largest ... run by a local NGO, to protect the oldest Baobab trees in Madagascar and the only known natural habitat for radiated ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats ...

Sequencing hundreds of samples of material collected from the vast network of quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides ), a team ...

Pando, a massive forest in Utah, is confirmed to be between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, making it one of Earth's oldest ...

The Shibpur botanical garden, India’s oldest living plant repository housing 1,377 species and the legendary Great Banyan ...

The move comes just before a Biden administration deadline for Israel to deliver more aid to the enclave or risk a cutoff of military supplies. By Hiba Yazbek A day after the prime minister of ...

Antisemitic assaults on visiting Israeli soccer fans, and incendiary chants and attacks by some Israelis: Here’s what we know so far about the violence in Amsterdam last week. By Jim ...

Melania Trump declined Jill Biden's invitation for tea at the White House as their husbands meet for the customary post-election lunch. Melania reportedly cited a scheduling conflict but sources ...

KYOTO, Japan (WKRC) - The world's first wooden satellite has been ... vegetation on other planets in our universe, including trees and other timber producers. A group of Japanese researchers ...

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