Concerns about the impacts of invasive species is not new; it dates to the 19th century. The term was popularized in Charles Elton's 1958 book "The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants". However ...

In South Africa’s Limpopo province, a baobab tree once grew so large and stood so strong that its human neighbors decided to do the obvious: They built a pub inside the living tree’s thousand ...

Africa’s timeless trees are thriving Focus Tuesday, 22 Oct 2024 A photo ... South Africa, which collapsed in 2016. — ©2024 The New York Times Company.

More than two-thirds of South Africa’s 20,400 plant species are found nowhere else in the world, said Karen Esler, a distinguished professor of conservation at Stellenbosch University.

A researcher followed up on a study warning that the massive trees were in danger, ... South Africa, in 2018. It split in 2009 into several stout parts low to the ground.

Africa is home to some of the oldest trees in the world, notably baobabs. This particular tree species on the continent is extremely large and predominant within Savannah regions.

And in a visual analysis carried out in May at the request of Yale Environment 360, he used sample satellite images to estimate that there are about 1.4 billion trees on farms across sub-Saharan ...